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- can't wait to see the full thing

 

I still find it hard to believe it's written in bB. Really shows how far it's evolved since last summer

"The reflection is an easy effect in Photoshop. If anyone's interested, I'll post a "how-to" on it. What really makes it work, is having the trail of crumbs crossing over it. That establishes where the floor is, even though you never actually see the floor itself. "

 

Actually what makes it work is the fact that both his feet are level. If his feet were staggered (one closer and lower on the horizon line and one farther and higher) your trick wouldn't work. It'd be cool if someone wrote a plugin that could simulate reflection and take that sort of thing into account. Sort of a pseudo 3D but easy to use and understand.

His feet aren't quite level. I had to fudge it a little bit.

 

You can skew the image to a certain degree to make it work, but not a lot. There are other tricks too, like partially hiding the reflection behind the character, to mask the unevenness. That tends to work better when creating drop shadows though, than reflections. The process for both is really similar.

 

What helps the most, is having your point-of-view as close to ground level as possible. The higher your elevation, the more the reflection would be different, and the less it's going to work. The Photoshop cheat only goes so far, before you have to draw the whole reflection anyway.

I only now saw this for the first time. I love what you did with the poor Gingerbread Man!

 

..Al

Thanks!

 

But only now? I thought I already sent you the final version of the manual...

 

Or did you mean this blog entry?

Back to the original subject, Trader Joe's is now selling Double Rainbow Pumpkin Ice cream again.