[Narcis_speed6]

Dominico made a tutorial some minutes ago, i though i should point some better way of making reflection:

first chose a picture you want to apply a reflection, i chose the tbogt logo...



now you should double the canvas since the picture must be flipped
duplicate layer and flip it vertical, it should look like this



now take the second layer and set Layer mask> reveal all



in the layer panel it should look like this



select the gradient tool and select the black-white one



now draw a line from bottom to top (top to bottom if the gradient is white-black)



it should look like this



looks okay on transparent background, but on color the transparency is not so good

you should create a new layer and make it black or other dark colors ,to modify it just select the rectangle (i made it red in the pic below)



as you can see it looks like a simple flip, adjust it using the same methods until will look something like this



remove background and it should look like this



this tutorial is not all about reflection, you can do this on a basic layer and blend images together.




This post has been edited by Narcis_speed6 on Saturday, Jun 18 2011, 22:27

[Dominico]

Nice tutorial man. Maybe you can post one on how to make a 3d folder look like because I saw one in your early creations.

[Ats.]

Nice amount of tutorials coming out recently. Great for beginners. Might do one myself too.

[Narcis_speed6]

QUOTE (Dominico @ Sep 3 2010, 20:35)

how to make a 3d folder look like

i don't know for sure about what are you talking about, can you give a link?

[Dominico]

Tried that and it works, just like in Corel lol, where you drag the glass icon over the selection to make it transparent lol

Narcis, you know what I'm talking about. I usually used other ways of making layer transparent. Nice hint btw.

[Narcis_speed6]

is pretty simple, you can complicate it a little if you want a better result:

[Dominico]

Now why would I put that on a table?

[Narcis_speed6]

i used the same resource like in the tutorial, the final result is up to you

[Dominico]

Thanks for the info, Narcis, I still learn new things about Photoshop. As I said, anyone uses their method, if you give same pic to 3 users the final result may be the same but they used 3 different ways to make it look like that. It's just like cooking, everyone makes the same recipe but it tastes different.

[Narcis_speed6]

yea, this is just the basic, i would like to see some of you posting the result, maybe i can give you some tips.

[massrcor]

Good [tut] Narcis.

I use the same technique for reflections.

Now I'm gonna have to try something like the table pic.

[The Guru]

Nice tutorial, but I just have something to add. To make the reflection look more realistic. You should try making it a tad bit smaller (not width wise). I read that in a tutorial I read somewhere on the internet sometime ago.

[Narcis_speed6]

there are more things to add other than that, i wanted to keep it to basic, you can also add glass effect, blur, ocean ripple and many other effects (depending on the surface you're making the ref)

[TommyMufc-Champs]

Very good tutorial. Well done.

[Narcis_speed6]

bump, learning ref wouldn't hurt anyone.

[LulzAllDay]

-Bump's.

Really good tut, Narcis. Here's my result's;

[Cheat]

Cool tut man, thanks for the bump yo

[Narcis_speed6]

Good result you should make the reflection fade out even more.

[blitz]

A bit off-topic here, but I just noticed you're a mod now. Well done

[Drift-Kingz]

I noticed that as well. Congrats man. But IMO you should have been a mod months ago.