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This lesson demonstrates how to optimise shiny metal surfaces. The image I am working with can be found Here. Unzip the file and open it onto Photoshop’s workspace.
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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Open your image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
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Then duplicate the Background layer by (left-clicking), and dragging it over the following Create a new layer icon.
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Working with the Background Copy layer, press Ctrl then L. In the subsequent Levels dialogue box, grab the Black point and move it slightly to the right. The Input Levels value should be around 6. Then click OK.
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Now, ensure the Background Copy layer remains active, then drag it over the Create a new layer icon, exactly as you did in Chapter 2. You will now have the following layer stack. Ensure the Background Copy 2 layer remains active.
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Change the Background Copy 2 layer’s blend mode from Normal to either Hard light or Overlay - I chose Overlay. This enhances the contrast. Blend Modes lesson.
 
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Activate the Sponge Tool. 
And (still working on the top layer), set the Options Bar to the following (Desaturate) settings - ensure your brush is small, round and medium.
Now, zoom into the Harley, and carefully remove the vibrancy of the red bricks, as shown here.
  
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Now, activate the Rectangular Marquee Tool, (with no Feather), and apply a border marquee around the Harley image.
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Then from the top menu, choose Select then choose Inverse.
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Now, press Ctrl then J. This copies the selected image inside the frame, and places it, as a new layer, at the top of the layer stack.
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Ensure the new (Layer 1) layer’s Blend Mode is set to Normal.
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Then set the Background colour to Black.  Lesson.
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From the top menu, choose Filter then choose Distort then choose Glass, and set the following attributes - or experiment. The Tiny Lens setting provides a beaten-metal effect, and because the Background is set to black, it has black highlights.
Click OK.
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Click the following f, fx - Add a layer style icon. 
And choose Stroke from the drop-down list. You are looking to apply a thin Grey border around the inside of the metallic frame. I choose the following (Grey) settings, shown in my screen capture here!. Click OK.
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From the top menu, choose Layer then choose Flatten Image.
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From the top menu, choose Filter then choose Sharpen then choose Unsharp Mask, I set the following attributes - Amount = 188, Radius = 17.5 Pixels, Threshold = 159. Sharpening Filters Lesson.
Congratulations, you have completed this very shiny lesson! link Here to save your
work.
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