http://mm-spinelstar.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] mm-spinelstar.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] spinelstar 2011-05-25 03:22 am (UTC)

Good question!

As you can imagine, this picture has a LOT of layers. So I had to merge some of them until I had the characters and all the coloring without the background onto one layer. Then I copied all of it, and then un-merged the layers again by pressing "Undo."

After that, I flipped the layer vertically and matched each character's reflection to where their feet were (I had to do it seperately because they're on slightly different planes; Becky and Abigail especially). Then I played with the opacity of the layers and blurring and things. I ended up with two layers, one with a vertical motion blur and both with the bottom faded out. (To do that, I made another layer with a half-transparent gradient, with the opaque part covering what I wanted to erase. Then I selected the gradient layer's transparency and cut it out of the reflection layer(s).)

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