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I need to know how to add the effect of text sitting on a reflective surface.

Example: http://www.redgategolf.com/home/

The white text on the grey banner is what I'm trying to achieve.

How do you do it Either in Fireworks or the GIMP 2.2???


Cheers.

sypher

I dont see the effect on that website.

But try this, copy and paste the text, convert to bitmap, blur it so its hard to distinguish, flip vertical and skew it so its stretched.

You may also want to make it more transparent and make duplicates building up the transparency.

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Legacy_Staff

I can see the effect but I don't like it on the example you gave.
It's extremely (if not 'too') indistinct.

Sypher's correct in his advice and there are some other things you might want to try as well:-

Drop the transparency of the 'reflection' layer to 40 or 50%.
Then apply a fading gradient mask to the 'reflection' layer, leading away from the original.
This will give your text the appearance of standing on a highly polished / glassy surface.
In this example (which took less than two minutes), I also merged the original and reflected layers into one before skewing the perspective. This helps the two images to align to each other when you move them around.


In this example with a lighter background I have also inserted a shadow under the original text just to separate it from it's "reflection".


I use Photoshop CS now but have achieved the same thing in Fireworks (a few years ago now, lol).

ZeMMs

I have written a simple tutorial on how to create a reflection effect using Fireworks. Check it out here:

How to create Fireworks reflection effect in 5 simple steps

Pádraig

This thread is ancient.

pa007

Thread closed.

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