I have seen mirror effects done in photoshop, where an object has been turned into a mirror, and you can faintly see an image reflected into it. I am at a loss of how to create it. My attempts seem flat, and look more like plastic wrap than a mirror. There is a nice tutorial on this in the Photoshop 6 Wow book, but I have lent mine to a friend :( I would appreciate any help on this. Thanks!

Which modeler do you use? Rhino has the abilty built in to do what you are after.

You can do it from scratch or cheat with a plugin. Flaming Pear has a Flood filter that is quite adjustable...rough sea to smooth as glass.

Thanks for the link dreamer, I'll give that a try this afternoon and see if its close to what I'm after.

Flipping a copy of the layer vertically and adjusting the blend mode is a good start to see the first part of a mirror effect. Maybe deform, for perspective. Liquify can help to do subtle distortion. It all depends on what you want to act as a mirror and if the perspective of the scene is a rather frontal view. A lot of times in a mirror (or mirroring objects) you see parts of the reflected object that can't be seen on the original. When that does not occur in a manipulated image, that can be a strong clue to the human eye. Good Luck!