Reflections

This is a very easy method to make an image look like it is reflecting on a table or some other flat surface.

    Materials Needed

• Paint Shop Pro.  You can download a trial version of this wonderful graphic program from COREL.
• Super Blade Pro
• My zip with the Super Blade Pro Preset, and the font that I used, which you can DOWNLOAD HERE.
• Tubes of your choice

** Put the Blade Pro presets and bmp images in your environment and textures folder, and the font, you can either install in your Windows/Font folder, or open it up on your workspace.  As long as it is open, Paint Shop Pro will recognize it and you can use it.

I will not remind you between each step, but please save your image often, so that you will not lose all of your hard work.

Instructions

1. Open a new image, 800 x 300, 16 million colors, background is black.
2. New Raster Layer, and name this TEXT.
3. Background and Foreground are both #FFFFFF (white).  Using your text tool, click on the image, and apply these options: Antalias and Floating are checked, Bold is on, and find the Rockwell font, or one of your choosing.  You can use any font, but a wider one shows up better.  I used size 100, but if you use a different font, you might have to adjust it as needed.
4. Keep text selected, and apply the Shiny Gold Super Blade Pro preset.  Deselect.
5. Move your text up towards the top of your workspace with the mover tool.
6. Now add any tubes that you want to decorate your text.  Place each tube on a separate layer, and move them into the position that you want with your mover tool.
7. Duplicate your text and all of your tube layers.
8. On every duplicated layer, highlight it, and go to Image/Flip.
9. Any duplicated layer that overlaps a top layer, move it down below that respective layer so that it is underneath.
10. Turn the opacity of each of the duplicated layers down to 40, as I have done on the layer palette here.  You can adjust the opacity to whatever looks good to you.
11. At this point, you might want to eliminate unwanted space around the image, and make sure it is centered.  Draw a rectangle around your text and tubes in the dimensions that you want, using the selection tool, and go to Image/Crop to Selection.
12. Make sure that your background color is set to white, and add a border by going to Image/Add Borders and type in 5, symmetric checked.
13. Select your white border with your magic wand, tolerance and feather set at 0.
14. Now apply the Shiny Gold Blade Pro Preset that you used on the Gold and Diamond name.
15. Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen, and repeat the sharpen again.
16. Change your background to black, and add another border of 15 pixels.
17. Change your background back to white, and add another border of 5 pixels.
18. Select this border with your magic wand, and apply the same Shiny Gold preset.
19. Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen, and repeat.
20. Resize, sharpen as needed, and you are done!

Thank you for doing my tutorial!