If you often find yourself bringing various images together in Photoshop (and I predict you will), you can't simply toss the images together and have the new image look realistic. As you've seen, effects such as shadows are essential to create a realistic-looking environment. Creating reflections is another technique for doing this.
Try it YourselfAdd Reflections to a Surface for Realism Let's look at an example to see how you can add reflections to your toolkit of special effects:
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Well, I'm satisfied. The image now looks like one piece instead of a box and a handful of extra pixels thrown together. That's what special effects like reflections can do for you.