How to Creating the Magical Mirror Effect with Adobe Photoshop

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Well, these days, digital photography artists are using mirrors, of sorts, to create magical effects on their computer monitors. Basically, a mirror image is one in which one side of a frame is perfectly mirrored (reflected) on the opposite side of the frame–side to side or top to bottom. In Photoshop, we use Canvas Size, Copy and Paste, Duplicate Layer to create the effect. It’s that easy!

With this technique can do to make text mirrot effect too.

Okay! Let’s take a look at how easy it is to create the magical mirror effect in Photoshop.

Open File

Open file that you want to make a mirror.
Creating the Magical Mirror Effect 1

Increase Canvas Size

The next step is to increase the Canvas Size (again, the actual working area). We increase the Canvas Size by moving the shaded box into any of the other boxes–and then typing in a new height and/or width dimensions. Because I wanted to increase the height of my Canvas Size on the bottom side of my picture, I moved the shaded area to the top middle box. Then I typed in the new Canvas size–which, for ease of use, was a bit more than double the height of my original photograph.
After I approximately doubled the height of my image, my new working area (new Image Size) looked like this.
Creating the Magical Mirror Effect 2

Duplicate your layer that contain picture

Creating the Magical Mirror Effect 3

Create a flipped image of your original

Creating a flipped image of your original is easy.
Activated Mirror Layer (after duplicated) then go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical and you will get the result like this.
Creating the Magical Mirror Effect 4

Create the Magical Mirror Effect

This the magic will began. Move you mirror page to the bottom of the image like this.
Creating the Magical Mirror Effect 5

Conclusion

Most pros agree that Photoshop has changed the way that we not only make pictures–but the way we see potential images.

More Realistic?

With add little bit effect on you mirror you can make this wonderfull result 😉

Creating the Magical Mirror Effect Result

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28 responses to “How to Creating the Magical Mirror Effect with Adobe Photoshop”

  1. huei Avatar

    wow cool!!!! :d

  2. franky Avatar

    Nice tutorial!

    1. Jauhari Avatar

      Thanks You 🙂

  3. Agam Avatar

    Ada Pluginnya juga lho itu.
    Aku dah pakai. Bahkan bisa diberi efek air, dll. Gampang tinggal sekali klik dah jadi :)>-

    1. Jauhari Avatar

      Mana Mas? Request Dong 😉

  4. caf Avatar
    caf

    🙂 Thank you very much for making it easy. :d

  5. PixelFactor Avatar

    nice blog! Good step by step infos ! 🙂

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  7. Mike Avatar

    🙂 Nice blog. Good step by step explanation.

  8. Only Easy Avatar

    Baru praktek… trims tutorialnya

  9. uwiuw Avatar

    atur nuhun pisan abdi teh ngarasa bener2 ditulungan :)>-

  10. ersin akbulak Avatar
    ersin akbulak

    Thanks for info i would like to ask anything else if we want to make a lake effect on the mirror layer which effect should we use?

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  12. slam Avatar

    nice tutorial

  13. =sHowsToppeR= Avatar
    =sHowsToppeR=

    Good tutorial , learned some techniques, GOOd outcome

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  15. Sasa Avatar

    You could be more detailed when explaining (such as shortcuts in photoshop etc). Otherwise nice tutorial, hope you’ll continue sharing it with us.
    Regards,
    Sasa

  16. Calinutz Avatar

    you can do that with paint. select the zone you and to mirror, copy/paste it below, select Image->Flip/Rotate ( flip vertical ) and done.

  17. Photo Sharing Avatar

    A fantastic read….very literate and informative. Many thanks….where is your RSS button ?

  18. Danny Avatar
    Danny

    Hi there

    Can you please describe how you did the ‘More Realistic’ effect?

    Thanks in advance
    CHEERS 🙂

  19. Andrew Hawkes Avatar

    Great tutorial, I am more of a visual person myself, although this is exactly how I had to learn to use this effect, I put together a video on the same thing for all the visual people like me.

    Thanks for your great work, the video can be viewed here
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ueW08Dz5Q

  20. guest Avatar
    guest

    what the hell… what’s magical in this?

  21. lav Avatar
    lav

    it is very marvellous………..

  22. Ipod Iphone Jailbreak Avatar

    ngomong ngomong soal photoshop, sekarang sudah CS5… si gue CS 3 aja masih kaku euy…buset dah

  23. Michael Jackson Avatar

    mantap mas jauhari…
    btw, saya pernah make photoshop di mac os.. bingung pisan euy.. beda banged menu menu nya…haahahaha.h…

  24. yuyu Avatar

    wah ini dia yg saya cari, cara bikin efek mirror, thanks mas jauhari 🙂

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