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Omnicloud

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Reflections

« on: March 04, 2007, 02:45:31 AM »

Hi,

I don't really get how reflections can be used so they look good. Anyone here know how?

My reflection attempts end up in flames Crying or Very sad

Thanks

P.S. I use Photoshop CS2

P.P.S. Sorta like this


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Lupine1647

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Re: Reflections

« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2007, 09:10:05 AM »

I know todd (the one who did the LP banners) did a small explanation of how he did those.

If you do an oval in photoshop or your favorite image editor and have it set to a white color. Then there should be an option to set a transparency on the oval. From there you can adjust the oval's transparency to what looks good for your image.


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MrPhil

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Re: Reflections

« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2007, 10:01:10 AM »

To do reflections and transparency really well, you need to produce your images with a "ray tracing" program. POV-ray is quite good. Photoshop hacks with ovals and transparency settings may do for some simple cases, but are limited. At least, look at the POV-ray site to see what it can do.