Finishing touches

We have finally arrived at the very last stage of the study. In the previous steps, we carefully rendered the individual materials and “built up” the clock. In this last section, we’re ready to give it the final push to make it a complete, appealing study.

Adding reflection using Screen mode

The first thing we have to consider is the glass covering the clock face, which we haven’t paid attention to up until this point. The presence of a transparent surface can be easily suggested by adding a reflection.

For this, create a Screen layer just underneath the clock body layers, as follows:

Figure 16.36: New Screen layer

In this layer, using sky blue, draw in a reflection on the upper-right side of the face, as follows:

Figure 16.37: Glass reflection using Screen

Note how doing so immediately suggests the presence of a transparent sheet in front of the clock face. In Normal mode, this...