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wozza
Hi
Ive been having trouble trying to get this reflection to look realistic, but ive tryed for ages on this pic now and still i cant get it too line up correctly and was wondering if anybody in here could help me in this respect heres the pic.


wozza
k.k.d.
First of all, sheer the reflection image a bit to give it the appearance of being more wattery... Then I would of scaled it in Y to be smaller... Then I would of made it a lot darker, and by all means, not different sahde of color than the original, but that's just me (diff colors just accentuate the effect of fakiness)

As for line-up, consider that the part of the wheels (of the original) that are in the water are not part of reflexion, lol.. ;)
DaveSaenz
Hmmmz. I sux @ photoshop, but I still use it quite a bit to beautify my photos before putting them online......

Sorry I can't help you with that man.

Are you using version 7 BTW??? Where can I get a copy of V7?? I'm using 5.5 right now...:nervous:
kirbtastic
might wanna throw a gradient overlay on the reflection so its darker under the green car..u also need to rotate the green car a bit they are at different angles..the zig zag filter might help out the reflection a bit..but basically u have 2 different cars and it will never look right unless u are a real psd pro
wozza
well i had a go at it, was pissing me off so much that i left it as this, tell me if it looks anything like a reflection, thx


wozza
Tranex02
kkd's advice is pretty good!
as for the new pic, try a different filter, cuz u can tell that the wavy-ness is fake...... and make the reflection darker, or like kirbtastic said, add a gradient, using the gradient might give it the texture of the asfalt on the road...

good luck:)
dj_mdma
Nice stuff there Wozza! I wish i could do that so that at least i could sorta know what my car would look like! I like the way you've turned a Lexus into a stretched Renault Clio V6 :D
skaborough fats
First you got's to work out your scaling issues...

The green-green example nailed that... well close.

just remember that you need to distort the picture. Water isn't like a mirror. It's close, but not the same. Darken it and make it a bit transparent so the 'ground' under the 'water' shows a bit.

I can see that you were on the right track with the underside of the car... but I wouldn't worry about that so much... the underside of a car is dark right, shadows and all.

wozza was close... just don't make the reflection so solid.

Cheers,
Fats
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