How to flip a mirror image. How to mirror a photo in Photoshop
Good day, dear readers. Today I will tell you about a simple tool, which is sure to be useful to any web designer: to create a landing page or, if you are creating an online store, to improve the pictures in the product card.
I'll show you how to make an image mirror. First, use two buttons to simply expand the picture, and then professional way reflect an object as if it were in a mirror or on a glass table.
Let's get started?
Two buttons for mirror effect
So, this method works no matter what version of Photoshop you use CS6, CS5 and even in online versions. I work at CC.
Once you open a photo in Photoshop, you need to unlock it for editing. Without this, you will not be able to use most functions. Click the lock to the right of the layer's thumbnail.
Now press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T.
Right click anywhere free space selected fragment. Will open extra menu with many functions for rotation: vertically, 180, 90 degrees. Now you select "Flip Horizontal".
Done, you have flipped the image as a mirror image. If there are any logos or mention on your photo brands and you don't want readers to see them, this is an easy way to complicate things. Many TV channels now use it.
If you don't like using the keyboard shortcut, you can top panel select "Edit", then "Transform" and "Flip Horizontal".
Well that's all, with simple method figured it out. It's time to make something beautiful. By the end of the second part of this tutorial, you will have an attractive image that can be inserted as a design element or simply as an illustration for a product card in .
Mirror effect
The first step is to prepare the background. As a rule, professionals work with light and black to see the result in different colors. To do this, you will have to learn how to work with gradients. If problems arise, read my detailed step-by-step instructions.
Create a layer, then under the Fill tool find a gradient and fill the layer radially in dark colors. Can be used depending on color #655959 before #3f3535.
Now you need to create another layer with a light color. Click on the icon next to the basket. Or in the “Layer” tab of the top menu, select “Create” new layer».
You can use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+N. By the way, I recommend that you keep a notebook where you will write down all the hot keys. There are a lot of them in Photoshop, but they make your work much easier.
At first, you can write down the keyboard shortcuts you use every time. Suppose you forgot - looked and wrote it down again. I managed to remember on my own - there is no need to look for honor, praise and a pen. At one time I studied this way English language. Helps. You sit until the last moment until you remember without prompting, so as not to write the same thing a hundred times.
Fill the top layer in light colors from #cdc6c6 before #948d8d.
Make the drawing a little smaller. To make it shrink proportionally, while you move the mouse, hold down shift on the keyboard. Once finished, apply the changes by pressing Enter.
Click on the layer thumbnail right click mouse and call up an additional menu in which select the “Rasterize layer” function.
In the same menu, also click on “Create a duplicate layer” or use the Ctrl+J button combination.
Now you need to press Ctrl+T, “Transform”, and right-click inside the object, as I described in the previous paragraph. Select the Flip Vertical option.
Drag the new layer down, this can also be done in current state. Alternatively, press Enter to finish the transformation, select the Move Tool (overlapping arrows) and drag the new layer down.
Add . A rectangle with a circle inside. I have already described this function in detail. It is somewhat reminiscent of an eraser: it erases objects or makes them transparent.
Now you'll need a gradient again. From black to white, but this time mirrored (indicated by number 3 in the screenshot).
Draw a line somewhere from the middle of the object from the first visible layer to the end of the “reflection”, as shown in the figure.
Be careful when you apply the gradient that the white border should be on the layer mask, the one to the right of the sketch. Double-click on it and you can adjust the density and make the reflection transparent.
Now you need to blur the object a little, since there is no “pure” reflection in nature. Click on the layer's thumbnail to apply the edit specifically to it. In my case with the image of an apple. Next, go to the “Filters” – “Blur” – “Gaussian Blur” tab.
Adjust the radius as you like. It all depends on the resolution of the source. In my case 5 is perfect.
You can remove the visibility of the light gradient layer by clicking on the eye next to it, and see how the photo will look on the dark one. All that remains is to choose the best option.
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In Word, every day, all over the world, great amount text documents. For some, this is a work report, a thesis, an essay, course work. And every second user is faced with adding pictures to a document. Although many, to the best of their ability or ignorance, omit this moment. After all, it only seems that inserting a picture takes long time. And if you suddenly need to make a mirror image of a picture, then the older generation will probably ask a friend or loved one for help, or maybe skip this step altogether, citing lack of time. Let's figure out the problem that has arisen together.
Reflection of the image "mirror"
You can mirror your drawing using the following steps. Initially, insert the image into the Word document:
To display an image you need:
Horizontal reflection of the picture
There are situations when it is necessary to change the direction of the drawing. IN in this case, it is necessary to change the direction of Santa Claus in left side. To flip the image horizontally you need to do the following:
Note. If you need to place two pictures next to the original result as in the screenshot above, you need to copy the picture and then set the desired reflection.
Setting to Mirror a Pattern
To achieve the desired effect when reflecting a photo, you can adjust all the parameters manually. Click on the photo and go to the “Format” tab.
In the Picture Format window, set the right type“Blanks”, for example “Medium... touch”.
Note. You can mirror a photo with a shift of several points from the original picture; to do this, you need to select the “Reflection at 4 pt or 8 pt” option.
Any shift can be observed even when open active window"Drawing Format". To do this, move the parameters window to the left or right of the image that is located on the Word document sheet.
By mirroring photographs, you can change the perception of the frame and make it more expressive. It is believed that people looking to the right in a photo are perceived more positively than people looking to the left. To the left - as if back into the past. In landscape and city photography, the situation is approximately the same: bridges, rivers, streets going to the right - this is movement into the future.
But, in addition to changing the perception of the image, you can achieve some interesting effects using mirroring and copying.
Let's take a look at how to mirror an image in Photoshop.
Open the image in Adobe Photoshop. Our photo will be opened as a Background layer. And, by default, no changes can be applied to such a layer. This is done on purpose so that when working you always have the original frame. In order to base layer It became possible to change it by double-clicking on the lock icon on the right side of the layers panel. This will unlock the layer. Another option is to simply copy the layer and apply all changes to the copy.
In order to mirror a layer in Photoshop, there are two commands. They are on the menu Edit/“Editing” → Transform/“Transformation”.
Flip Horizontal/“Flip horizontally”- allows you to flip a photo horizontally.
Performs vertical mirroring.
Let's look at another example that shows how to mirror a layer in Photoshop and achieve a kaleidoscope effect.
First, let's create a copy of the original layer. To do this, you can either select the menu item Layer/“Layers” → Duplicate Layer…/“Create a duplicate layer…”, or drag the layer icon with the mouse onto the icon for creating a new layer in the layers panel.
Now let's increase the size of the canvas so that all parts of the future “kaleidoscope” are visible.
We need a menu item Image → Canvas Size.
We need to set the parameters in such a way that the canvas expands to the right by an amount equal to the width of the original image - we will add a mirror image on the opposite side. Therefore the settings will look like this:
As an anchor point Anchor/"Location" we set the left edge of the image - it will remain in place. And they indicated that the width of the canvas should increase by 200% relative to the original width. Let's leave the height unchanged for now.
After pressing the button Ok and applying all the changes made, the Photoshop window will look like the image below.
We make sure that the top layer is active and mirror it relative to the vertical axis using the command Edit → Transform → Flip Horizontal. Then use the mouse to change the location of the two layers so that they align along one of the edges.
For precise and accurate positioning, it is convenient to use the Up, Down, Right and Left keys on the keyboard.
Now let's make a mirror image in another plane.
Let's merge the two current layers into one. This can be done with the command *Layer/“Layers” → Merge Visible/“Merge visible”. Let's increase the canvas size in the same way as we did before, but this time vertically. The anchor point will be at the bottom border, and we will increase the height by 200%.
It will turn out like this.
Let's create a copy of the top layer (which already includes the original and mirrored images). And apply the mirror command to this copy Flip Vertical. After that, use the mouse to place the mirrored layer in a new place.
This kaleidoscope effect can be achieved by mirroring pictures in Photoshop.
In the process of preparing some material, we may need to make a mirror image of the images placed in the document. About the possibility and ways to do it in Word mirror reflection of the image is what we'll talk about today.
The image we select is located on the sheet in the place where we placed or left the cursor. An image placed on a sheet is instantly captured by markers, and top menu a special tab appears containing various options, tools and templates that allow you to edit this image.
So let's get started.
Let's place an image on the sheet (page):
As we said, the image was captured by markers, and the “Working with Pictures” functionality appeared in the top menu, containing the “Format” tab. This tab is collapsed and we don't see the options it contains:
Simply click on the tab name to expand it:
Now it's at our disposal a large number of various options and tools with which we can edit the image this way and that.
Since today we are talking about mirror image images, then turn our attention to the section of the “Drawing Styles” tab and the “Drawing Effects” tool contained therein:
Click on the title of this instrument Let's reveal its functionality and look at the effects that we can apply to the image. Among the many effects, there is also the “Reflection” effect we need in this case. Hovering your mouse over the title this effect, we will see reflection options:
And by hovering the mouse over the reflection options, we can immediately see what the reflection of a particular option will be like when we select it:
We can further edit the selected reflection option, that is, change it at our discretion. We can make the reflection less or more transparent, or blur it, or all three. Or we can move the reflection away from the image.
To start editing the reflection itself, you need to select the image again - it must be captured by markers. Then follow the already known path to the proposed Word options reflection and below the list of these options, select the “Reflection Options” option:
Once we choose this option, the “Picture Format” window will immediately open, which contains, so to speak, levers of influence, or parameter regulators:
By grabbing one or another slider with the mouse and moving it left and right, we influence the reflection. By moving a slider, such as “Blur,” we immediately see the changes taking place. It may happen that the window with the slider controls opens in such a way that it completely obscures the image. In this case, you need to grab the window with the mouse by its upper part, where the window name is located, and move (move) it to any side convenient for work.
For example, I'll move the blur slider a little to the right and we'll take a look at what the reflection looks like:
If we are satisfied with the selected option—preparing a reflection—then, of course, there is no need to change additional reflection parameters. In the case when we changed our minds and decided not to make a reflection of the picture, then to delete it we again go to the reflection options and select the “No reflection” option:
Let's consider the possibility of making a reflection yourself, without using the blank options offered Word program. This process is simple. All we need to do is copy the image and turn the copy made 180 degrees, and then place it below the original image.
Let's get started.
I suggest this copying method: Aim the mouse cursor at the center of the image, and then press the “Ctrl” key and hold it. Then, click left button mouse and, holding it down, drag the copy of the image a little down:
You can “throw” a copy at this place:
If at the moment of moving the copy it has shifted a little, then you can help yourself with the arrow keys of the computer keyboard.
Of course, you can make a copy of the image in another convenient way.
Let's continue.
Grab the top middle copy marker with your mouse and drag it down. This action of ours is turning a copy of the image “upside down” (180 degrees):
When flipping a copy of an image, it is not necessary to try to visually achieve the size of the original image.
And when we saw the copy upside down and slightly narrowed in height, let’s release the left mouse button - stop holding the marker and look at what we got:
Now, grabbing the copy with the mouse or using the arrow keys of the computer keyboard, we will place the copy on the original image approximately in the middle:
Then, using the mouse to grab one marker and then another, we will combine the copy with the original:
From now on, we will call the copy of the image a reflection.
We can apply effects appropriate to the reflection. In order to do this, we need to select the reflection again if it is not selected. Let's do this by left-clicking with the cursor on the reflection body. Reflection was captured by selection (editing) markers, and the “Format” tab of the “Working with Pictures” functionality appeared in the top menu. Click the mouse to expand the contents of the tab. Now we can take advantage of the options and tools it contains.
For example, by selecting the “Artistic Effects” option, we can apply one or another suitable effect to the reflection:
Let's choose, for example, the “Blur” effect from the proposed options. Already when you hover your mouse over this effect, we can see the reflection change:
To apply the selected effect to the reflection, you need to left-click on the effect icon. We can strengthen or weaken the applied effect, or, in other words, edit it. To do this, you need to reopen the window with effect options and select the “Art Effects Options” option:
As a result of this choice, the effect settings window called “Picture Format” will open. It is in this very window that we make our own own installations parameters:
All we need to do to change the effect is move the slider. You can not use the slider, but set some of your own parameters using the arrow buttons. To cancel the parameter we have set, click the “Reset” button. In the same window we have the opportunity to change the initially selected effect to another effect:
And change its parameters in exactly the same way.
For more quick call window for changing parameters (the window is called, as we remember, “Picture Format”), we just need to right-click with the cursor on the reflection body:
We can also open this same window by simply clicking on the small arrow in the lower right corner of the “Picture Styles” section:
We don’t have to limit ourselves to just one applied to reflection. artistic effect. So applying the “Blur” effect: 
We turn to the “Correction” tool and add one of the options with adjusted brightness and contrast to the already blurred reflection:
The parameters of the last applied option can also be changed, and we already know how to do this.
If we want the reflection to not have a clear lower border and smoothly merge with the sheet, then in this case the “Shapes” functionality, which is located in the “Insert” tab of the top menu, will help us.
Let's expand the “Insert” tab with a regular mouse click and with the same regular mouse click we will expand the contents of the “Shapes” functionality, where we will select the rectangle drawing tool:
After this choice, the mouse cursor will turn into a crosshair of two lines - now you can start drawing a figure.
Our task is to place a rectangle on top of the bottom of the reflection without going beyond the edges of the reflection; in other words, the rectangle should be in the foreground. It's not difficult to do this.
Let's draw this rectangle. To make it easier to draw a rectangle, click the mouse to select the reflection. He was captured by markers. These markers are our assistants in drawing a rectangle. We draw a rectangle as if we were connecting the middle left and right side markers, with the left and right lower corner markers together.
As a result, we should get something like this:
IN automatic mode the rectangle is colored blue. In our example Word sheet It has White color. For this reason, we need to color the rectangle white. To achieve the desired effect, let’s not just paint the rectangle with white, but fill it with a white gradient, then make adjustments to the fill settings.
Let's get started.
As soon as we drew a rectangle, the “Format” tab of the “Drawing Tools” functionality immediately appeared in the top menu. If this tab is collapsed and we do not see the options and tools it contains, then simply click on the tab name to expand its contents and select the “Shape Fill” option:
From several filling options, we will select the “Gradient Fill” option we need in this case, and inside gradient fill the very first option from the proposed light options:
You can choose any other fill option, since we will completely change all its parameters.
So, the rectangle is filled with the selected gradient. If we reset the selection with markers (a regular mouse click on a blank sheet of paper), we will see the outlined outline of the rectangle. Select the rectangle again. We don’t need the outline stroke, let’s remove it by selecting the “Shape Outline” option in the top menu, and then the “No Outline” option:
We can get rid of the outline immediately after we have drawn the rectangle. We do what is convenient for us.
Let's continue working with the gradient.
After we have filled the rectangle with a template gradient, again in the top menu we will select the “Shape Fill” option, and then the “Gradient” option and then “Other gradient fills”:
The “Shape Format” window will open in front of us, informing us about the parameters (settings) of the gradient fill of the selected blank option. We need to change these parameters:
The main parameter changes include changes to the fill angle, color, and transparency. The sequence of changes made can be changed at your discretion.
Let's get started.
The first step is to change the fill angle. Clicking the up arrow button will change the angle from 45˚ to 270˚. For more quick change parameter, the button can be kept pressed:
Now let's work with the gradient.
Click the mouse to select the middle ink tank to remove, and then press the button with a red cross:
In the same way, fill the right inkwell with white and look at the result - the rectangle is completely white:
The final step towards achieving desired effect there will be an increase in the transparency of the right ink tank. Click the mouse to select the right inkwell, if we reset its selection, and move the transparency slider to the right, setting the value to 100%:
So we have achieved the effect of smooth merging with the leaf. To enhance this effect, move the left inkwell slightly to the right:
We can further enhance the effect by changing the height of the rectangle.
Let's grab the middle top selection handle with our mouse and drag it up, while watching how the effect changes:
With a regular mouse click on a free field of the sheet, we will reset the selection with markers and look at the final result:
Although the process of creating a man-made reflection can be considered labor-intensive, there is still one thing big advantage before using templates. This advantage is determined by the ability to work with reflection individually, using various effects and simulating reflection on various surfaces without affecting the image itself.
PowerPoint allows you to add all kinds of media files, such as images, to your presentation.
What happens when you need to reflect an image in a presentation? The good news is that you don't need to open Photoshop or another editor just to flip an image.
Let's learn how to mirror and manipulate images right in PowerPoint.
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How to Quickly Flip a PowerPoint Drawing
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watch this short video tutorial or follow the steps below that complement this video.
1. Place the drawing you want to display in PowerPoint
I'll start by pasting an image from my clipboard. I'll place it on the canvas and then reduce the size by holding Shift and, at the same time, I will press and pull the corner. The image looks good, but it needs to be reflected.
An upside down PowerPoint image that needs to be flipped.2. Mirror the drawing horizontally or vertically in PowerPoint.
Select the picture, let's make sure that the PowerPoint menu is open on the ribbon: Working with Pictures > Format. Let's click on the "Rotate" button right side. If I choose Flip from top to bottom, the image will be mirrored vertically.
Let's flip it horizontally, go back to the same menu and now I'll select Flip from left to right. You see that the image is mirrored.
Flip an image horizontally and vertically in PowerPoint.Let's finish!
These maneuvers are useful if your image is initially upside down or flipped and can be corrected using the menu Turn. These manipulations happen right in PowerPoint and in just a few clicks.
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