July, 2008
In this tutorial we will show you how to make a mirror effect in Photoshop CS3.
Open the photo you need to apply the effect to:

After that, make a new layer and go to: "Image/Apply Image":

The "Apply Image" window will pop up.
Select the following settings:

After that, apply a black to white gradient:

Then, set the Opacity to: 40

After doing so, go to: "Image/Adjustments/Color Balance" and add a lot of blue and green.

Then you must duplicate the Layer:

After that, go to: "Edit/Transform/Flip Horizontal":

This is how it looks so far:

Then, go to: "Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur" and choose: 5.

After that, paint the background of the image with a green brush:

Then, select the background with the selection tool:

Now, we will apply a Gaussian Blur:

Look how it looks now:

After that, open the next image (which is included in the zip file):

Again, select the background and delete it:

After that, go to the horizontal layer and give a ripple touch:

Isn't this sexy?

You can do it. =)
Download the original source files from this tutorial in Zip format Here
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