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Now to build our "mirror" shelf. Using the Rectangle Marquee tool, centre a selection over the "divide line" and go right across your image. Make sure it is wide enough for two of your focus objects. Once you make the selection, again fill it with white, and apply a Gausian Blur, but this time with a pixel blur setting between 8 and 12. Source: Celesteharrell.com The image will still look decent with a mirror in it, however i will need to create some bodyparts (not a huge deal, you however may want to start with something more simple, a cube or other geometric object is going to be your best bet.) The first decision to make is what kind of mirror will be used. In this i'm will re-create an art-deco type mirror (frameless). You may just want to do an entire layer of mirror. Before you begin work, you ,ay want to read up on what the physics of a reflection are, so you can understand what is going on and why. Ok, here is the process I used; First off, I need to make a layer that will represent the mirror. I start out with a vector shape. The shape has no reflection and is a very subtle blue-green (the tint of the mirror). The shape has no perspective, so this must be done now. At this point the vector is sitting above the stock photo, so that I can see the woman, I must change the opacity to around 50%. I need something to put in the mirror, in most cases this means flipping the image, however since the woman is infront of the mirror the image would not flip. If she were to the right or left this would not apply, in that situation her image would need to be flipped horizontally. If the mirror is above or below the object, a verticle flip is nessisary. This can lead to trouble as occasionally (in this case) you now sisplay something that is not shown and therefor dose not exist, this takes experiance and a basic understanding of third dimension and the human form. Now i select the mirror, take the selection to the layer with the woman, and duplicate the area. I bring the image above the mirror. This will be the layer of what you see in the mirror, the other image will be the tinting (witch I will explain later). The mirrored image is not going to be visible if it is directly behind the stock photo, so it needs to be broght to the left of the woman (due to persepctive the the theory of reflection [this is why your junior year of science was so important kids ;)]) The image now has blank spots that need to be filled in, since I am going to assume the background of the stock image is around the entire 'room' and that she is in the middle of the 'room' (like a hallway setting) I will simply clone the existing backdrop into the blank areas. The end result is crude, but can be fixed later on. Now the hard part begins. This work is a pain in the ass, it is really annoying and anal. It requires cutti... Generally select an area around the glass like so using the polygonal lasso tool and press ctrl+c and then ctrl+v. Name this layer Tinting.
In this tutorial we will show you how to make a mirror effect in Photoshop CS3. Open the photo you need to apply the effect to:
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