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Tutorial: Reflection Part 1
Published: 2010-10-11 12:56:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 67148; Favourites: 2158; Downloads: 993
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Tutorial for creating a mirrored reflection effect in Photoshop.Please note that this is a 2-part tutorial!
Part 2 : [link]
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THANK you so very much for my first ever DD `MzzAzn and ^FantasyStock
I've got a few requests over the last couple of months to show how I do reflections in my pictures (as seen in [link] , [link] and [link] to name a few examples), so I thought I'd whip together a tutorial showing my way of doing them. It's definitely not the best way of doing it, and I'm sure there are some much simpler steps of doing this, but this is one of the ways you can do it.
Anyways, the tutorial will show you steps of how to create a mirrored reflection. The first part of the tutorial explains the process of mirroring your subject, whilst the second part shows how to mirror the background and make it more believable.
The steps shown were all done in Photoshop CS2, but I'm sure it will work to some extent in other programs such as GIMP or Painter as long as you make a few changes. Please feel free to ask if you have any quires about any of the steps.
You are not authorised to redistribute this tutorial or the original image without my written permission, or claim as your own. Please respect my wishes.
- Tutorial and Line-art Β© Malin TrΓ€isk
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i got last when we started using the gradient, iv no idea what im doing wrong.
i use photoshop elements 7
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I've never used Elements myself, but I found a website that might be able to help you instead : [link] I dunno if it's any good, but I hope it helped a bit β₯
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thanks, it sort of helped a little.
i need to figure out how to create gradients, but im not sure if i have a transparent button.
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Thanks for the tutorial, I love this effect 
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You're most welcome, I'm so glad you found it useful
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hi, Cerona! i'm an admin of a spanish group of tutorials. One member of our group has asked us to translate this tutorial, but we need your consent.
thank you.
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Hey there! Sure, that would be fine by me
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ok, thank U very much. you can see your tutorials translated in our group
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Nice! I used to know how to do this with GIMP but after transferring to PS and not doing anything that requires it I completely forgot lol... thanks for the tut its much different than in GIMP
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I'm glad I could help
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Awesome help
this will help for all my creatures and human designs.
Xipilli a creature based of unicorns and griffins.
Only he has the head of a humming bird, body of a shire horse wings mixed with Quetzalcoatlus wings [link]
and butter fly wings
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I'm glad if it will turn out useful for you :]
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What a cool effect! I love it!
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I'm glad you like it
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Woow, thanks so much for sharing this!! It helped me so much to give my new character a cool yet simple background! I gave you credit! 
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Great! I'm happy you found the tutorial useful enough to actually use it aswell 
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Yes, it's such a great way to make a simple but very chique background. Because sometimes I really don't want to draw a difficult background but still want something cool! Hehe, and you are very welcome!
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Yeah, I'm always afraid of backgrounds looking too plain, but I feel it sort of gives it a bit more depth
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i cannot believe it, after i asked u how to make a reflection u made a tutorial. 
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No problem hun, I told you I'd make it for you
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and now u shall get the tight hug 
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Great tutorial 
Would you mind if I draw a picture with reflection based on your tutorial ?
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Of course you can, that's what the tutorial is there for
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This is really cool. I've got some other techniques of doing this, but I think this one is easier!
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There are a lot of different techniques out there about making reflections, but I thought I'd show my way too in case anyone was interested
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Great! I have always wondered how you made these
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I'm glad if it can come in handy for someone
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This is very interesting to see how you do your reflections, so thank you for making this. I had some ideas as to how you made it, but it's always interesting to see how the artist does it.
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Yeah, there are plenty of ways of making reflections, and probably just as many tutorials about them, but a few people have asked me how I make them, and the easiest way for me to show something is by screenshots, so why not
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This is sure to come in handy if a make a picture that needs a reflection!
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Yay thanks ! this is great! I gotta try it out when I get outta my artistic block :S
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This is awesome! I'll for sure use it to help me doing reflection effects by the near future!
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can u tell me how to make a matrix effect ??? plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 
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Um, I don't know how to make them
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