Rendering Realistic Chrome Photoshop tutorial

A lot of people were asking me how did I do the watches in photoshop so I have some time will make a tutorial. Now chrome is a little tricky to render. What you are trying to do is render reflections and reflections act very differently depending on the type of surface where the light is coming from etc. Now there is no right or wrong way to render chrome and my method is just one way you can achieve realistic chrome. Took some time to figure out but I think this is a very effective and realistic way to create chrome chrome like materials by brushes.

Dont upvote or leave any comments on the tutorial slides you will cause order of the tutorial to switch around. If you want to ad a message do so at the very bottom.

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you can use any version Even Photoshop 10 or 9 can do this. All you are using is the brush tool and the layer styles which all Photoshop versions have. Enjoy guys.

Nice little tutorial lekaimadh and the first I have seen something done with PS in GrabCAD....
Great work.

NIce work. A lot of smart "tricky" tips :)

Awesome tutorial :D hopefully i'll have more time to mess around with Photoshop in order to give this a shot

Great Tutorial Man
Keep going on PS tutorial
lots of GrabCad members need to know more about PS and now here u r
Thx Lekaimadh

Stunning work my friend,pure art and I loved it!What version of photoshop can you do this with,forgive my ignorance as I know very little when it comes to this software,other than having elememts 9 exe and elements 9 premier exe, pre installed on my laptop which I presume is for sorting your photos out!

Amazing tutorial!!!!!

You are not only the master of Cad designer but also Master of graphic designer. Great tutorial

Guys, dont upvote or leave any comments on any of the tutorial slides it will cause to go to the top messing up the order of the tutorial, just ad a message at the very bottom. And thanx all and enjoy

Really Amazing, but this need tablet, using mouse will take alot of time and more efforts, but i will try it using my bad mouse XD. thank you.

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