Help me with a PS CS3 reflection

Butters

Butters

Butters

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I quite like doing these now and for normal perspective I have them nailed.

Problem comes when I have images on a different aspect.

i.e

63021275qp6.jpg


The reflection is wrong. How do I sort it?
 
Butters said:
Yeah I understand layers. WotDa, thats still not visually correct but thanks
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Fiddle with it a bit more than me and it should work. :)
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It was intended to be more of a demonstration rather than a final piece as I was in the middle of getting ready for college. :)

Unless, of course, you mean that you've given it a blast yourself and it still doesn't work, in that case, I have some watching material for you courtesy of the great Bert Monroy - http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/reflections

Hope that helps. :)
 
You need to split the image into 2 pieces.. because you can never distort it how WotDa is doing and have it look good..

But your going to struggle with that image because of the angles..

I got this..

reflect3djp1.png
 
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gord said:
You need to split the image into 2 pieces.. because you can never distort it how WotDa is doing and have it look good..

But your going to struggle with that image because of the angles..

I got this..

reflect3djp1.png
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No, thats perfect. Can you briefly describe what you did?
 
Butters said:
No, thats perfect. Can you briefly describe what you did?
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I'll do so for the way I would have done it.

Marquee the house, copy it and paste it onto a new layer (Can duplicate the whole layer if it's 'clean') and then flip it vertically (horizontally?)

Using the marquee tool again, highlight one side of the house and cut it, paste it into a new layer.

Next distort/skew/free transform/whatever both sides upwards.

That should net you the same result (I don't know what transformation technique he used though)

Should be it, if not, shout abuse at me again. :o
 
Think about where you would put a mirror if this object were real, the kind of reflection you are trying to achieve is artificial so you are not going to be able to do it without distorting the original in some way.
 
Butters said:
No, thats perfect. Can you briefly describe what you did?
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WotDa is mainly right. A few points though:

The split will always be where the angle changes at the bottom of the image, so where the two walls meet defines the left and right part.

I also made the reflection smaller vertically due to the angle looking down on the house it should foreshorten the reflection.
 
As a final note, if you want to make a decent "true" reflection of the house then you should re-draw the house. The true reflection would let you see under the roof, you also might not be able to see the chimney etc..
 
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The first image was a simple copy layer and flip. This is great for normal 2d images but gives the wrong reflection for 3d effects.
 
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