How to Reflect a Cylinder in Photoshop
One of the benefits of using a graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop is the ability to create your artwork once and reuse it multiple times in different perspectives. This also works when you're editing or starting with an existing piece of artwork. Duplicate an image such as a cylinder, for example, to illustrate the concept of reflection, without drawing the cylinder twice. Instead, take advantage of one of Photoshop's image transformation options to change cylinder perspective and make two from one.
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Instructions
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Open Adobe Photoshop. Click the "File" menu. Click "Open." Navigate to the cylinder picture to reflect, and double-click the picture file name.
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Review the "Layers" palette on the right side of the screen. If the palette is not open, click the "Window" menu and select "Layers" to open it. Note that if the palette is already open, doing this will close it.
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Right-click the layer the cylinder is on. This may be called "Background" if there is only one layer in the palette. Select "Duplicate Layer," and click "OK." A copy layer is added, but is completely obscured behind the original.
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Determine the type of reflection for the image -- horizontal, as if the cylinder was reflected in a plate glass window or vertical as if the cylinder was reflected in a body of water on the ground.
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Click the copy layer if it is not already highlighted in blue on the "Layers" palette. Click the "Edit" menu. Select "Transform." Click "Flip Horizontal" for a side-by-side reflection or "Flip Vertical" for a head-to-head reflection.
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Click the "Move" tool at the top of the "Tools" pane. Drag the cylinder, now reflected, out from behind the original and into place on the Photoshop canvas.
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Right-click the copy layer and select "Flatten Image." All layers combine into one. Click the "File" menu and select "Save As." Type in a new file name and click the "Save" button.
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