Reflecting Text - Photoshop Tutorial

[Shannon]

Ever wondered how to make a reflection of some text? Here's how.

• Make a new layer
• On your new layer, use the Text Tool to create some text
• Right click on the text layer and duplicate the layer
• Rasterize the duplicate layer, by right clicking on the layer and selecting Rasterize Layer
• Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical
• Move your upside-down text underneath your original text
• Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, select half of your upside-down text
• Go to Select > Feather and type in 10. Hit OK.
• Press delete and you'll notice a nice smooth fade-out on your upside-down text
• Lower the opacity of the upside-down text to about 30%
• Finally, to give your reflection a bit more of a perspective look, go to Edit > Transform > Perspective. Drag the bottom left point outwards until you get a desired effect.

Hope that helped. Try it with other stuff as well such as pictures.

Copyright © 2003, Shannon E.

 

[ALPHA]

Can you please post an example?

 

[Garconis]

Thanks for the Tutorial man!

Here it is, with a slight Plastic Wrap filter on both Text layers:

 

[Garconis]

Originally posted by Eddy

• Finally, to give your reflection a bit more of a perspective look, go to Edit > Transform > Perspective. Drag the bottom left point outwards until you get a desired effect.

Hope that helped. Try it with other stuff as well such as pictures.

Copyright © 2003, Shannon E.

Actually, you should drag the bottom left point INwards. Because if its a reflection it would appear to go further away (get smaller) as it gets taller, the tallest point of the reflection is the bottom; so it should be getting more narrow near the bottom. Like this: