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Selasa, Mei 20, 2008

Arts with Photoshop


How to design a mirror to a text/font

Before we start the tutorial, you must've a basics in using Photoshop application at least knew the interface and functions of each menu and tools.
First thing is to open a new canvas. Click File >> New..

For this tutorial, admin choose the 640 x 480 pixels canvas and setting up for a white background.


Next, draw or write down some text to the canvas, like this:

As you can see, on the bottom-right corner, there is a Layer menu. Duplicate the text you want to mirror it by right-click on the layer and choose Duplicate Layer or by pressing Ctrl+J. Make sure the layer is highlighted (blue color).

After duplicated the layer, press Ctrl+T to transform it. On the text, right-click and choose Flip Vertical. The text will turn down.

Press Shift+Left click the text and move it to the bottom of the original layer (text on canvas). Like this.

Then, on the Layer menu, click on Opacity and drag out the scale to the minima percentage as you wish.

Your text will suppose to be like this:




So, have fun with it. Next is the completed mirror text by mine.



best regards;
admin

*sorry for the poor english..

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