Object reflection in photoshop

I'd like to know how people are able to get this type of reflection. I currently use photoshop CS3

https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=images&ItemID=1156946

Looks to me like it was baked in a 3D app. But if you want to do it by hand, you certainly can. Just take a good look at what's in that picture, and then paint the same thing you're looking at. Sorry I can't give you a more technical answer, but a forum like this is not a good platform for art lessons. I can give tool suggestions, like use the burn & dodge tools on an overlay layer for highlights and shadows, and use a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse, but beyond that, it boils down to your own ability as an artist.

It does look like a 3d app to me too, the way
the underneath of the shoe is showing.

You can pull of something pretty close in Photoshop though.

Bert is a master. Here's his episode on reflections.
Episode 28 might be some help too.

Thanks, I got to studying the image and others and something came to mind.

I took a picture of my shoes I created then turned them upside down took another picture. Put both the images where they should be in photoshoped, added a layer mask, made it fade out where it should have been and viola, I created my shoes reflection.

Oh, I thought you were talking about the reflections in the texture on the shoe itself. If you just meant the reflection of the shoes in the floor, then yeah, the technique you came up with is an easy way to fake it.

Here are some options that can save you a little work. Two snapshots may be a waste when one will do. Rez two copies of your shoes, turn one pair upside down, and put it under the other. Take a single snapshot of both pairs. Mask the lower part of the image to make it fade, or add in the floor as a layer above the shoes instead of below, and mask that to fade in the opposite direction. Or, if you don't want to mask in post at all, simply put a flattened cube with an opaque-transparent gradient texture in between the two pairs, and just take a snapshot of the whole thing.