Adam Everett Miller provides some tips for adding new material to a picture frame in After Effects, after it has been shot. This is a good look at what best to use in the picture frame to bring out the reflections in the glass when shooting, and how to bring the glass reflections back into the shot for a more realistic look.

This tutorial will show you how to shoot a blank picture frame and then add in a fake photo in After Effects. We’ll cover how to maintain reflections in the glass and get the best looking result

Adam uses mocha to track the shot and uses the tracked data to drop in a photo into the frame, and uses a layer blend mode to bring back the reflections into the shot. Check out the tutorial for Adding a Picture Into Live Footage Picture Frame While Keeping the Reflections in After Effects here.