Design Basics - Mirror Image

[TanyaMartin]

In this image, I just copied the original layers, flipped them and then changed the colors to make a mirrored image.

[Atom]

flip vertical .... nice ..

[AcRoNym]

nice, try the same with text and some deft eraser work to get nice reflections, even changing the hue on the reflection gives nice effects

[LazyJim]

someone try a photo of a face, it's increadibly hard to look accurately look right, a reflection face often looks too perfect because we are so sensative to faces.

Any way try half the face full-colour and the other half greyscale or something.

[AcRoNym]

? u lost me there make a face reflection?

[LazyJim]

if u chop a face in half down the middle
throw half away
reflect the other half and line it up

the result doesn't look very good unless the origional photo was taken exactly centered and straight etc.

[Atom]

yes but it can be flipped horizontal and matched right to the pixel ... so you would never be able to tell "except" for the perfect symmetry ....

[Atom]

there are some pixel shading issues that can occurr if you choose to overlap at all but... those can be fixed perfectly...

[Atom]

but with faces ... yeah,. there never perfect ...

[TanyaMartin]

This one was pretty basic I didn't have time to play this weekend. We had to use pieces of an image we made in the first project. So I couldn't use text or faces.

[AcRoNym]

cut a face in half and reflect it why?? to gain symmetry

[LazyJim]

no acro, for artistic effect

another thing i only just thought of on the reflected face - all the shadows would pooint the other way, (so u'd have to get the lighting just right!)

[AcRoNym]

gimme an example

[LazyJim]

example of what?
a mirrored face that looks wrong, ot an artistic effect?

[AcRoNym]

well i dunno about a wrong looking face? try the artistic one

[AcRoNym]

in fact ill make one! and artistic face