Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Creating a reflection with perspective?

Imager opened this issue on Nov 13, 2007 · 5 posts


Imager posted Tue, 13 November 2007 at 12:51 AM

I have an image of a car.  It is facing the camera about 3/4 view, part of the body receding into the background.  I would like to create a reflection, as if it's sitting on a shiny surface.  Copying and flipping the image doesn't work because when I move the image down so the front wheels match, there is space between the rear wheels of the original image and the rear wheels of the reflection image.  In reality, all the wheels would be touching.  Transform and rotate don't work because all the wheels move together and don't line up right.  Anyone know how to do this?  Thanks, Drew.


Heztia posted Tue, 13 November 2007 at 1:53 AM

What about a mirror filter?

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Imager posted Tue, 13 November 2007 at 3:06 AM

Mirror filter?  In Photoshop?  (I'm using Photoshop CS)


Heztia posted Tue, 13 November 2007 at 1:50 PM

Try some of these site. you can find a lot of filters (mirrored as well)[

http://www.thepluginsite.com/resources/freeff.htm

](http://www.thepluginsite.com/resources/freeff.htm)[http://hem.passagen.se/pshop/freefilt.htm

](http://hem.passagen.se/pshop/freefilt.htm)[http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2007/10/08/1000s-of-free-photoshop-plugins-filters-megalist/

](http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2007/10/08/1000s-of-free-photoshop-plugins-filters-megalist/)These are just a few place to get you started, there's lots of place that offer mirror and other filters for PS I have PS7, CS2 and CS3 and have different mirror filters.  You'll just have to find what excatlly you need.  Hope this helps.

Heztia

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bonestructure posted Fri, 16 November 2007 at 2:31 PM

Here's what I do to make reflections. Select what you want to be reflected. Duplicate the layer and paste it. Hit free transform. Grab the top square and drag it down to reverse the image vertically. Use the perspective transform or distort transform to adjust it. Modify the opacity to the level you want. If it's on water, use the ripple filter to ripple it out.

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