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Friday, 7 December 2007 

Photoshop Shiny Chrome Effect

Here is a little Photoshop technique I developed the other day to make shiny metal really shiny (click on any image to view a large version).

First duplicate the layer:


Run the High-Pass filter with a large number of pixels so that the shiny areas get emphasised.



Finally then just change the layer blend mode to soft-light ( or hard-light) to make it all shiny:

Nuts - Canary Wharf London


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Beginners guide to Photoshop Layers:
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