Comments on: Creating Those Cool Reflections in Photoshop

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:33:51 +0000

Sadly I’m not that great of a designer, nor familiar enough with Photoshop, to provide any insight into this one

By: Andrew Trenholm

Andrew Trenholm — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:06:09 +0000

Your tutorial explains the basic but how do I mirror a skewed item?

For example: I have a square bottle of perfume that is taken from an angle so the bottom is not horizontally straight (in other words a distorted capital L in 3D). So when I flip it, one side of it just moves further away and while one corner is touching also there is no reflection under the bottom corner that is at an angle?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:50:09 +0000

Thanks for the link, there are some useful tools there!

By: usb

usb — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:30:08 +0000

Great tutorial thanks. Here is drop shadow generator: http://www.dropshadowz.net

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:52:36 +0000

Guess I should have done a better job at proofreading my own tutorial, haha.

As well, thanks for the shadow tip. I pulled that text from the images used elsewhere on the site, which do have the drop shadow, but not a reflection. I thought it looked rather strange, but I couldnt quite put my finger on it still.

Also, good to hear from you Paul. Its been awhile, hope all is well with you.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:08:53 +0000

You forgot the “f” in reflections.

Quick tip: you may want to consider leaving the drop shadow off. If you think of the text as if it were in the real world, the reflection is visible because it’s sitting on top of a reflective “floor”, and the drop shadow is visible because it’s backed up against a “wall”. The two don’t always go together, especially if there’s no distinction between the wall and the floor in the surrounding color. Just my 2 cents.