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Photoshop Reflections

Monday, May 12th, 2008 – running time 14:17
Bert creates reflections from scratch this week with the help of the distortion filter.

This week, Bert adds the illusion of a reflection on an image with three simple methods. First, Bert simply creates a reflection by adding an existing image and adjust the opacity. Second, Bert distorts an image of a ball and match by using the distort: spherize filter. Third, Bert creates a reflection from scratch by using the pen tool and various layer styles.

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" Hi welcome to another episode of pixel perfect would mean her mom to show where I show you all kinds of stuff. Taylor from about reflections I've done a few shows on reflections that would put about that kind of Texas that it kind of collections and need to be distorted to make work properly. Before we start that that something if you build with colonel. Godaddy.com. You want to make it impact on line code -- dot com has what you need. Dot com mains for as low as -- dollar and 99 plus a world class hosting. Fast easy web site builders and so much more plus and that -- pixel -- seen on screen there. When you check out and save an additional 15% on and the order of 75 dollars or more. Some restrictions apply to site for details. Get your piece of the Internet -- code daddy dot com. So. Talk about reflections. Now. A dozen shows on reflections and on the screen right now I have a image that it is actually commercial piece that I had to do. And -- as straight on reflection. Very some reflection right here in the windows recommend posting here with you. The area of the window right here is should this have been reflected this imposes inside but then as his reflection right here. Come over here to the other side and we see little reflection in the glass he wears that backwards and so on to use human reflection. And what exactly is reflected back there that I'd go ahead and create all of reflections -- I didn't waste time that kind of thing I just use one of my opinions. Right there. And here he designed here in these little things going on here that sign right there if we look at the job."

" there it is there's the size of candidate -- vertical or flip horizontal rather and there's the whole scene right there. I think we're seeing right here. Mister president going in there and taking a job. An existing image and as using it as -- reflection straight on. But what I do now is to a couple of things that a little more involved these are. A couple of reflections. That require a little distortion. This first one is -- going to be fairly simple. I just want to hear what's happening that I have this marble right there is pain and is a match. And a match as you can see you real post here -- slightly affected right inside there but it's distorted. Distorted because the surface that's it's being reflected onto is Kurt. Sony to get that same kind of curvature and -- can Hulu type and so on so. Creating that is the fairly simple process here we have the match and the marble by itself. It's -- that -- back there and here's the match and the marble there in their own layers or Desi can see. So wanted to do is used it's theorized filter retarded about us clear the model uses spears so scientists theorized the match. How used that filters going to determine how do reflections going to look now we started the on the side here so it's gonna have a slight distortion. So let me call of the filter and and the layer with the match. Are coming here and say distort. -- And wonderful to opens up we have this a little preview that does happen to us greatly changed their NEC right here we have this war. Now it has to shape of the of the image Agassi had a ball is going to affect my -- Now imagine in the center so it's going to kind of bulge out click okay and that's what it did. Let me -- that. I'm gonna take the match. And move it all the way over to decide. To decide. Let's go back into that distort filter its sphere eyes narrowed the filtered these matches over here. Please see what's going to happen now is such as theorize it in this kind of an angle here. Gonna click OK you know is that the distortion is much different from the first time. It's of the match into place right here Alex's. Apply it one more time. Your eyes and easy -- got greatly distorted but now this theorize effect is being kind of effect that we want. I'm going to reduce its size going to say scale it down. The scale it down to about like that. -- could happen put in a position right about there and clip it with the week with the F sphere of the little marble. Option. Click between two layers red -- panel. There isn't just gonna reduced capacity so I have this nice little reflection on the side of the marvel that looks the way it should."

" Now going to go in here and do a relatively straight on kind of that a reflection of -- on this is the way it looks this is the paying that this is from and it's right up here. Leo cause it's this letter -- made out of neon that's. Sitting on top of the plastic shape here and the plastic as -- a shiny glass of plastic so we see a reflection of the neon inside there. But to make -- a duplicate -- it is not going to be enough because of the fact that it is a reflection. So."

" Look at the layers here and that's that's the the neon layer right there that's the mayor of the neon right there and wait I'm here. There's a plastic. And it does it there's a reflection right there. And on the plastic is a plastic and on this layer is a reflection. -- created. From scratch here now. It's real simple to do artistic than they -- that's the neon that there are gonna duplicate. The school here and we've got this copy. And I'm going to. Bring down them take this layer and bring it down it's gonna bring it down into the area of the plastic right here. Okay and now it's inside the plastic let's go up there look at me on its -- and he actually on off. Okay there it is inside -- automatically clip because as I brought it down into an area that was clip it automatically dock put by the plastic. Right so now that's and that they are back on of the neon. There's neon and we're gonna take our reflection here and with the move tool we go ahead and move it over. About like. That as a reflection. Now. Out of script that's fine why do we -- capacity a little bit and I would look fine but when we look great here. Then we see where the problem is right. Year. It. Pulled back down and a little bit. There there is where it's wrong now. But it is I created a reflection by simply. Duplicating the later in the and that's what's causing a reflection so. That's me -- ourselves but the problem comes in and the fact that the neon is twisting downward towards assigned to go behind itself. And then go into the into the socket. So what I have said before creating and a reflection to say I'm gonna be looking at a mirror like this taking my picture into an of the pars uncle perfect reflection. What if the -- is here. I can't just do that vertical -- what happens in this situation like this is you would see the bottom of my -- And the bottom line knows -- to going to and modified and reflection and in the right. So here's what we have to do here we have to change this little area right here all of the reflection. In order to correspond to what's happening there so and the reflection. I'm gonna go in and just get rid of part right here just dump that part throw away. So there is good layers are going on there so now I want to do is I'm gonna go in here and recreate."

" In the on going up this way. So. That's created in the layer. Right above here this no we we have it right and I'm gonna go in there and what do with a the open to a -- in the interest on my negotiate this and come up this way it's gonna go up towards. -- Up like that. Before is going down now has to come up those two it is kind of roughing it up breakthrough there come down here and over. And oppose that off so and I wouldn't -- to get -- just a way -- ones that we think this -- little thicker here. And so on just like that that I doubt the shape is going the way it should. So it's turning towards America. -- in the eyes going down closer to the plastics and reflection has to go up to needed. This site that. Without and that you -- I can pick a color like status when right here. And it's that this uses white and in that they are just go ahead and fill that with that tone and unfortunate that is the whole layer -- with a path going to say. Bill that right there with that tone. And been going there and let's go back to our layers and is that the layer we can go to -- applied -- layer style to it. I've read the players out there right into this has got to same layer style. And I could take that and merge down. Merge down into that layer below -- down. And got too much of that don't I think what we have gone this layer capacity than we do system that back up to -- 100%. It fairly equal all right and and I could just merge down. If this guy and merge down. Okay there it is inside idea affect those strong. You'd have to go -- make some adjustments to have but that's the big problem and not just going there and starts his painting from is like tones and here. If if that we like tones that are -- goes into there. And that's changed -- back to normal up here. Okay go to start getting some of my flight -- going on there and have to change that aren't added. But he could be it effect the what's going on and pull back -- about it -- is going up to meet the overall scene as it does here. Where I took my time to get it right there -- some reflections -- up. And across this is so dark tone he's going underneath it looks like it's going underneath it's all allusion. Is -- an illusion of the."

" Third dimension that we're doing in the two. So is this question of going there and studying reality looking at the way things work in some cases this -- description of maybe making little model for yourself. A little tube or something -- just. She what happens. Set up a little -- for yourself and see -- those reflections work again because it and his stuff is just a question of looking at things around you. Study reality to see how things work. And reflections. At the top clinic and via top one. Because of the fact that you're looking at some object but the reflection will be a totally different scene. Of looking at a treaty which is wonderful tray. But to ground underneath this say it's -- The bottom part actually might not look as beautiful as a traitor we're looking act as -- which has been -- trunk and they'll elect cavity inside world of branches coming on the leaves on the outside. This question to study how things were going in there and looking at reality in two recreated. You to -- space of Photoshop. -- something from that. Is going there and play. Again look at things around you making little miles for yourself and don't think that's cheating that's what everybody does. Greatest artists in the world they -- had models that they use to go in there and create things that I guess at what something's gonna look right if you guess you might get it wrong. And somebody's gonna look at your pieces they might not know why but it gonna save that looks wrong and it's fun. Question is studying reality in order to be able to recreate it. Popular something that number play best way to learn -- this something else that you'd like to see something you've been struggling with them you can't figure out and Iran. Send me an email sent to -- revision3.com. Or you can design and email us and your background yes. You can have your artwork displayed right back here. This so bad actually what I'm looking is just a big dreams screen because that's just of these aboard expected. That over can be yours. So design it. Send as a JPEG image size needs to be 1280 by 720. -- BI doesn't matter it's 1280. Pixels across by 720. Pixels down comedy per inch. Doesn't -- Also. Want to talk bust up but it does show this is around going to find ideas for future shows. Go to our forums go to pixel perfect forums at revision3.com. Slash form. Popular of them from this and I can't wait to see you -- next -- grow cover all kinds and you stuff. Yeah."

" Hi welcome to another episode of pixel perfect would mean her mom to show where I show you all kinds of stuff. Taylor from about reflections I've done a few shows on reflections that would put about that kind of Texas that it kind of collections and need to be distorted to make work properly. Before we start that that something if you build with colonel. Godaddy.com. You want to make it impact on line code -- dot com has what you need. Dot com mains for as low as -- dollar and 99 plus a world class hosting. Fast easy web site builders and so much more plus and that -- pixel -- seen on screen there. When you check out and save an additional 15% on and the order of 75 dollars or more. Some restrictions apply to site for details. Get your piece of the Internet -- code daddy dot com. So. Talk about reflections. Now. A dozen shows on reflections and on the screen right now I have a image that it is actually commercial piece that I had to do. And -- as straight on reflection. Very some reflection right here in the windows recommend posting here with you. The area of the window right here is should this have been reflected this imposes inside but then as his reflection right here. Come over here to the other side and we see little reflection in the glass he wears that backwards and so on to use human reflection. And what exactly is reflected back there that I'd go ahead and create all of reflections -- I didn't waste time that kind of thing I just use one of my opinions. Right there. And here he designed here in these little things going on here that sign right there if we look at the job."

" there it is there's the size of candidate -- vertical or flip horizontal rather and there's the whole scene right there. I think we're seeing right here. Mister president going in there and taking a job. An existing image and as using it as -- reflection straight on. But what I do now is to a couple of things that a little more involved these are. A couple of reflections. That require a little distortion. This first one is -- going to be fairly simple. I just want to hear what's happening that I have this marble right there is pain and is a match. And a match as you can see you real post here -- slightly affected right inside there but it's distorted. Distorted because the surface that's it's being reflected onto is Kurt. Sony to get that same kind of curvature and -- can Hulu type and so on so. Creating that is the fairly simple process here we have the match and the marble by itself. It's -- that -- back there and here's the match and the marble there in their own layers or Desi can see. So wanted to do is used it's theorized filter retarded about us clear the model uses spears so scientists theorized the match. How used that filters going to determine how do reflections going to look now we started the on the side here so it's gonna have a slight distortion. So let me call of the filter and and the layer with the match. Are coming here and say distort. -- And wonderful to opens up we have this a little preview that does happen to us greatly changed their NEC right here we have this war. Now it has to shape of the of the image Agassi had a ball is going to affect my -- Now imagine in the center so it's going to kind of bulge out click okay and that's what it did. Let me -- that. I'm gonna take the match. And move it all the way over to decide. To decide. Let's go back into that distort filter its sphere eyes narrowed the filtered these matches over here. Please see what's going to happen now is such as theorize it in this kind of an angle here. Gonna click OK you know is that the distortion is much different from the first time. It's of the match into place right here Alex's. Apply it one more time. Your eyes and easy -- got greatly distorted but now this theorize effect is being kind of effect that we want. I'm going to reduce its size going to say scale it down. The scale it down to about like that. -- could happen put in a position right about there and clip it with the week with the F sphere of the little marble. Option. Click between two layers red -- panel. There isn't just gonna reduced capacity so I have this nice little reflection on the side of the marvel that looks the way it should."

" Now going to go in here and do a relatively straight on kind of that a reflection of -- on this is the way it looks this is the paying that this is from and it's right up here. Leo cause it's this letter -- made out of neon that's. Sitting on top of the plastic shape here and the plastic as -- a shiny glass of plastic so we see a reflection of the neon inside there. But to make -- a duplicate -- it is not going to be enough because of the fact that it is a reflection. So."

" Look at the layers here and that's that's the the neon layer right there that's the mayor of the neon right there and wait I'm here. There's a plastic. And it does it there's a reflection right there. And on the plastic is a plastic and on this layer is a reflection. -- created. From scratch here now. It's real simple to do artistic than they -- that's the neon that there are gonna duplicate. The school here and we've got this copy. And I'm going to. Bring down them take this layer and bring it down it's gonna bring it down into the area of the plastic right here. Okay and now it's inside the plastic let's go up there look at me on its -- and he actually on off. Okay there it is inside -- automatically clip because as I brought it down into an area that was clip it automatically dock put by the plastic. Right so now that's and that they are back on of the neon. There's neon and we're gonna take our reflection here and with the move tool we go ahead and move it over. About like. That as a reflection. Now. Out of script that's fine why do we -- capacity a little bit and I would look fine but when we look great here. Then we see where the problem is right. Year. It. Pulled back down and a little bit. There there is where it's wrong now. But it is I created a reflection by simply. Duplicating the later in the and that's what's causing a reflection so. That's me -- ourselves but the problem comes in and the fact that the neon is twisting downward towards assigned to go behind itself. And then go into the into the socket. So what I have said before creating and a reflection to say I'm gonna be looking at a mirror like this taking my picture into an of the pars uncle perfect reflection. What if the -- is here. I can't just do that vertical -- what happens in this situation like this is you would see the bottom of my -- And the bottom line knows -- to going to and modified and reflection and in the right. So here's what we have to do here we have to change this little area right here all of the reflection. In order to correspond to what's happening there so and the reflection. I'm gonna go in and just get rid of part right here just dump that part throw away. So there is good layers are going on there so now I want to do is I'm gonna go in here and recreate."

" In the on going up this way. So. That's created in the layer. Right above here this no we we have it right and I'm gonna go in there and what do with a the open to a -- in the interest on my negotiate this and come up this way it's gonna go up towards. -- Up like that. Before is going down now has to come up those two it is kind of roughing it up breakthrough there come down here and over. And oppose that off so and I wouldn't -- to get -- just a way -- ones that we think this -- little thicker here. And so on just like that that I doubt the shape is going the way it should. So it's turning towards America. -- in the eyes going down closer to the plastics and reflection has to go up to needed. This site that. Without and that you -- I can pick a color like status when right here. And it's that this uses white and in that they are just go ahead and fill that with that tone and unfortunate that is the whole layer -- with a path going to say. Bill that right there with that tone. And been going there and let's go back to our layers and is that the layer we can go to -- applied -- layer style to it. I've read the players out there right into this has got to same layer style. And I could take that and merge down. Merge down into that layer below -- down. And got too much of that don't I think what we have gone this layer capacity than we do system that back up to -- 100%. It fairly equal all right and and I could just merge down. If this guy and merge down. Okay there it is inside idea affect those strong. You'd have to go -- make some adjustments to have but that's the big problem and not just going there and starts his painting from is like tones and here. If if that we like tones that are -- goes into there. And that's changed -- back to normal up here. Okay go to start getting some of my flight -- going on there and have to change that aren't added. But he could be it effect the what's going on and pull back -- about it -- is going up to meet the overall scene as it does here. Where I took my time to get it right there -- some reflections -- up. And across this is so dark tone he's going underneath it looks like it's going underneath it's all allusion. Is -- an illusion of the."

" Third dimension that we're doing in the two. So is this question of going there and studying reality looking at the way things work in some cases this -- description of maybe making little model for yourself. A little tube or something -- just. She what happens. Set up a little -- for yourself and see -- those reflections work again because it and his stuff is just a question of looking at things around you. Study reality to see how things work. And reflections. At the top clinic and via top one. Because of the fact that you're looking at some object but the reflection will be a totally different scene. Of looking at a treaty which is wonderful tray. But to ground underneath this say it's -- The bottom part actually might not look as beautiful as a traitor we're looking act as -- which has been -- trunk and they'll elect cavity inside world of branches coming on the leaves on the outside. This question to study how things were going in there and looking at reality in two recreated. You to -- space of Photoshop. -- something from that. Is going there and play. Again look at things around you making little miles for yourself and don't think that's cheating that's what everybody does. Greatest artists in the world they -- had models that they use to go in there and create things that I guess at what something's gonna look right if you guess you might get it wrong. And somebody's gonna look at your pieces they might not know why but it gonna save that looks wrong and it's fun. Question is studying reality in order to be able to recreate it. Popular something that number play best way to learn -- this something else that you'd like to see something you've been struggling with them you can't figure out and Iran. Send me an email sent to -- revision3.com. Or you can design and email us and your background yes. You can have your artwork displayed right back here. This so bad actually what I'm looking is just a big dreams screen because that's just of these aboard expected. That over can be yours. So design it. Send as a JPEG image size needs to be 1280 by 720. -- BI doesn't matter it's 1280. Pixels across by 720. Pixels down comedy per inch. Doesn't -- Also. Want to talk bust up but it does show this is around going to find ideas for future shows. Go to our forums go to pixel perfect forums at revision3.com. Slash form. Popular of them from this and I can't wait to see you -- next -- grow cover all kinds and you stuff. Yeah."

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Started discussion: May 12, 2008 @ 2:18pm GMT

Episode 82 - Photoshop Reflections [Discussion]

Bert creates reflections from scratch this week with the help of the distortion filter.

Watch or download the episode here.

Shinigami052
about 1 year ago
This episode seems a bit rushed to me...Bert seemed flustered or something maybe it was the end of a group and he was ready to leave? But still great tips. Keep up the good work Bert.

Production staff you still have some work to do.
Smeerkaas
about 1 year ago
That bit with the sphere and the matchstick was almost a copy & paste from a previous episode.

Also .. did anyone notice an audio/video sync issue? I watch the HD version, and at least in that file the audio is a little ahead of the video. And I'm pretty sure it has been for a couple of episodes.
Bani-Banan
about 1 year ago
^ I watched this episode on the rev3 site and did not notice any sync issues.

I agree that this episode feels rushed.

But that picture Bert took as an example was f-ing amazing!
I can't believe he did that in Photoshop.

oh welll, Good ep non the less
Imag1nat1on
about 1 year ago
Yeah, I was really disappointed when I saw that match stick come back :( I just skipped it.

The episode was very short and it did feel rushed....

AND this "lemme zoom all over the screen and try to follow Bert's cursor" deal is still not resolved and no one likes it :(. I've said that before and I'll just keep saying it until something happens.

Benefit of the doubt though, I'm guessing that the production team had already recorded a lot of these episodes in bulk, as I believe I read that in some post further back that they make Bert do something like 8 shows at a time. So, if there were a lot of those episodes that got recorded together that had all that zooming, there might not be anything they can do about it until that bulk is over with.
kauelima
about 1 year ago
It's me or anyone else noticed that the mic eas muted when bert was not talking... that's kinda wierd cause it sounds very unnatural and i was alwyas thinking that the video stopped when the audio stopped =/ By the way =D keep up with the great work Bert =D i've already learnt a lot with you =P
Maynza
about 1 year ago
In reply to kauelima:
It's me or anyone else noticed that the mic eas muted when bert was not talking... that's kinda wierd cause it sounds very unnatural and i was alwyas thinking that the video stopped when the audio stopped =/ By the way =D keep up with the great work Bert =D i've already learnt a lot with you =P


God yes, it would get dead silent when he wasnt talking. It felt like the audio was skipping even though it wasn't.
Brayden
about 1 year ago
That was the worst episode I have ever seen.

Not the actual tips etc - that was great and always is.

What I did NOT like was the overall 'rushed' feel of the episode - that and the sync issues - the whole episode was out of sync.

Also, what was with the green at the side and the muting mic?

Pick up your game Rev3.

Fail.
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