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Old 01-05-2006, 01:42 AM
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I will teach you how to do a quick reflective text on your sigs and other graphic designs that have text on them.

Step 1 Put Your text on your sig design

Step 2 For Best effect the First letter of each word have a different color.



Step 3 Go to layer then to Layer Styles and Choose Dafault Settings of Drop Shadow and the select stroke and select black and 1px



Step 5 Now Make copies of your text and then go to edit > transform > Flip Vertically it should look like this.



Step 6a Move the copy text as close as you can like so.

Step 6b Now on your layers menu right click on your copied text and select Rasterize type.

Step 7 now select your marquee tool and set your feather between 5-10 or what suits the text best and then press your delete key and you should have this.

Step 8 For best effect for reflecting text lower the Fill percentage until you get a gradient effect from dark to light on your copied text.



Step 9 final Product

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Old 01-05-2006, 02:30 PM
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Thanks, all these tutorials will definatly help me.
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Old 01-06-2006, 12:21 AM
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of course I would advise where not to use reflected text.

Bright background colors, Very Detailed background (abstract, grunge, tech, ) Unless you have a solid background color like you do all your designing in the center of the sigs and have open spots on the left and right of it.
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Thanks.
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Old 01-22-2006, 05:07 AM
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Excellent, I have used a technique similar to this before, nice work!

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Old 01-22-2006, 02:50 PM
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this kind of seems like a massive rip for me... from all the reflected text tuts that ive seen, and btw your kind of missing the part where you change the perspective and drag the bottom two corners...
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