Reflected text?

[insanity66]

I would like a pic to with the text "Bad Karma" and then i wanted to like put it somehow and make it look like i reflection under neath it, but i dont know how to do it, and i cant find any other topic to help me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Srry if this has already been discused.

[insanity66]

Alos i would like the text to have a glow or a shiny look to it, if possible, thx.

[Picc84]

This is quite easy, all you need to do is put the same exact words on the next layer, spin it around, and lower it below the actuall words, than... lower the optamicity of the reflection layer...

sorry for horrid explanition

[Rick Brewster]

Edited thread title

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[Picc84]

This is probally the easisest reflection you could do, you could make it better, i just made something realy quick to show you...

[RaveN]

Ok. I have never used this, I know how to though.

Take your text, and select it, with rectangular Selection tool....or hit S once.

Then copy it with Ctrl + C.

Get a new layer up.....and copy the text with Ctrl + V.

Simple up to there...

Now it gets a little bit more tricky.

Go to Layers under the main window, and rotate zoom, play around with that till you are satisfied, then move it around and place it where you want it, I like to select the entire layer before doing this, just incase some goes out of your current selection.

After that, Gaussian Blur that layer a little bit, not too much, and then using the Glow effect, put some glow on. Normally the upright text would have the most glow, and the reflected one would have less.

Hope that helps.

[trickman]

After that, Gaussian Blur that layer a little bit, not too much, and then using the Glow effect, put some glow on. Normally the upright text would have the most glow, and the reflected one would have less.

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I don't do that. I use the "alpha channel only" option on the gradient plugin =)

[Zacariem]

Or you could download codelab and use this code:

unsafe void Render(Surface dst, Surface src, Rectangle rect)
{
   int ycut = dst.Height * 50 / 100;
   float scale = dst.Height / 10.0f;

   for(int y = rect.Top; y < rect.Bottom; y++)
   {
       ColorBgra* dstPtr = dst.GetPointAddressUnchecked(rect.Left, y);
       ColorBgra* srcPtr = null;

       if (y > ycut)
       {
           float s = scale * (y - ycut) / ycut;
           int yreflect = (int)(2 * ycut - y + s * Math.Sin(y / s));
           if (yreflect < 0) yreflect = 0;
           srcPtr = src.GetPointAddressUnchecked(rect.Left, yreflect);
       }
       else
       {
           srcPtr = src.GetPointAddressUnchecked(rect.Left, y);
       }

       for (int x = rect.Left; x < rect.Right; x++)
       {
           if (y < ycut)
           {
               *dstPtr = *srcPtr;
           }
           else if (y < ycut * 2)
           {
               int frac = (2 * ycut - y) * 256 / ycut;

               *dstPtr = *srcPtr;
               dstPtr->A = (byte)((dstPtr->A * frac) / 256);
           }
           else
           {
               dstPtr->Bgra = 0;
           }

           ++dstPtr;
           ++srcPtr;
       }
   }
}

It's by Tom Jackson, here's the link to the page:

http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=1150&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Zacariem 8)

[trickman]

Zac, that's water reflection, not solid reflection

[Zacariem]

Oh OK I see what you mean now lol!

[insanity66]

Thx guys, this really helped!!!!

[Picc84]

How did myin look? haha

[insanity66]

How did myin look? haha

It looked good, srry for not answering for so long, been very busy