One of the tricks to making your digital paintings more realistic is a solid understanding of glossy highlights. In this Photoshop tutorial we'll look at stu...

Improving your painting is often a matter of depicting surfaces realistically. One component of a surface is the glossy highlight, or, "specularity" and it is explained in this video. If you're interested in learning more about surfaces and improving your rendering techniques, you will enjoy two of the series available in the store: Basic Photoshop Rendering and Creating Realistic Surfaces.

Studying Glossiness