Photoshop Tutorial: Best Way to Make Water Reflection!

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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quite a while ago I did a tutorial on an

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older version of Photoshop showing how

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to create a body of water below a

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skyline or landscape and then reflected

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in the water I streamline the tutorial

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and will now show you how to do it

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better and faster the photo i'll be

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using is 1280 x 360 pixels with a

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resolution of 72 pixels per inch open a

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photo you'd like to reflect in water go

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to image and canvas size click on the

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top middle arrow which will create more

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room for us at the bottom change inches

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two percent and type in 200 for the

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height make a copy of it by pressing

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ctrl J on a PC or command J on a Mac go

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to view and make sure rulers and snap

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are checked go to the top ruler and drag

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down a guideline to the center it'll

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snap in place because we have snapped

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checked to accept it press Enter or

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return if you don't see the guideline

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press ctrl or command H open your

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rectangular marquee tool go to the top

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left corner and drag a rectangular

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selection to the bottom right corner of

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your photo it'll snap in place press

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ctrl or command J to cut and copy the

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photo and then make another copy of it

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we're going to make a mirror image of it

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press ctrl or command T to open the

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transform tool and go to the top when

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you see a straight double-arrow drag

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your photo to the bottom until the

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reflection snaps in place then press

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Enter or return drag the copy below

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layer 2 and name it reflection name the

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top layer whatever your photo is let's

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drag layer 1 to the trash since we don't

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need it anymore make a reflection active

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and make a copy of it and go to filter

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blur and motion blur make the angle 90

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degrees and the distance 35 pixels right

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now it looks like a sheet of ice so

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we'll modify some of the reflections to

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give them a more fluid look first merge

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the two reflections by pressing ctrl or

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command e open your smudge tool and

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choose a medium sized brush with a

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hardness of zero the mode is normal and

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the strength is ten percent now brush

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back and forth over the reflection to

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smear it giving it natural

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irregularities as it would in water

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we're ready to create the ripples click

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on the new layer button to make a new

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layer we'll fill it with white and since

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white is our background color press ctrl

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or command + delete go to filter noise

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and add noise make the amount four

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hundred percent gaussian and

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monochromatic go to filter blur and

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motion blur make the angle 0 and the

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distance 50 pixels we need to increase

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the contrast so press ctrl or command L

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to open the levels window make the input

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black 147 the mid-tones 1.53 and the

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input white 219 because of perspective

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we want to make the ripples of the water

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at the bottom longer and as they get

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closer to the photo they become smaller

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and more condensed click on the left

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arrow and the Navigator panel to zoom

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out another way to zoom out is to press

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Z on your keyboard and press and hold

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alt or option as you click down on the

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image open your transform tool and go to

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edit transform and perspective go to a

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bottom corner and drag out then go to

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a top corner and dragged in to accept it

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press Enter or return to fit the image

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back onto your screen press ctrl or

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command 0 go to filter blur and Gaussian

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blur will blur it two pixels make a copy

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of it this copy will become the shadows

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of the ripples click off the eyeball to

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hide it and make the original active

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change the blend mode to soft light and

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the opacity thirty-five percent make the

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copy visible and active inverted by

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pressing ctrl or command I make the

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blend mode overlay and the opacity 30%

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click on your move tool and press the

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down arrow on your keyboard to move the

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shadows down let's blur the ripples that

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are closer to the bottom open your blur

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tool and choose a medium sized brush

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make the hardness 0 the mode normal and

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the strength a hundred percent now brush

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over the bottom of both ripple layers

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the last step is to create a gradient

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that will make the bottom of the

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reflection darker make the top layer

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active and press ctrl shift alt e' on a

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PC or command shift option II on a mac

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to make a composite snapshot of our

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entire image open your gradient tool and

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make sure the linear gradient icon is

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highlighted click on the arrow next to

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the gradient box and choose the black to

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transparent thumbnail go to the bottom

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of your image and press and hold shift

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as you drag up the gradient tool to the

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middle reduce its opacity to thirty

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percent then press Enter or return to

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hide the guideline press ctrl or command

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H

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so here is our final skyline with its

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mirror image reflected in a calm body of

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water that we created out of nothing

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this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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thanks for watching