photoshop image help!

[jasonbrooks]

Hi Guys,
I'm new to this forum, but I must say the work that everyone has done looks great!

I need some help with an image I'm trying to make. Its supposed to look like someone seeing themselves in a mirror. I had trouble making a silhouette of a face, and then had trouble making it look like there was a mirror with the same face in it.

If anyone can help me make it look like a mirror (I really don't know how to make one) and make the faces have the same perspective, I would greatly appreciate that! In addition, feel free to redraw the face or find a new one, because I'm really not happy how this one looks.

Honestly, if you just want to start from scratch, I wouldn't mind!

I attached the file. Thanks so much!

[jerryb]

hi,
i'll see if i can help..
generally it help if use real images however...

the problem you have with yours is over all the perspective...
according to your psd file... you have a profile of a person looking into the mirror but the reflection is of a profile and not the full face!!!! makes it look unreal

in this case what you want to do is have that person on the right looking away from the mirror ... then it would look natural to see the reflection of the profile .
so just select the person on the right and do a horizontal reverse ....

as far as the face in the mirror... since the mirror has a perspective to it...
possibly select the object in the mirror and then do a transform>distort to fit the face perspective with the mirror frame ... you don't need to do to mcu but just alittle

[jasonbrooks]

Hi JerryB,
Thanks for your prompt response! It seems, however, that I am still a bit confused. Any chance that you can mock that up in photoshop and reupload it?

Anything that you can do to help would be greatly appreciated!

[jerryb]

hi,
i hope this helps out...
but first here a tutorial.. now what important on this here although it doesn't really match waht your asking about is the fact how they use the distor tool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEy7t4ayQ18


now this is something i came upwith
on the left side in the mirror i used the distort tool totake into account the frame
and on the bottom profile in did a horizontal reverse tomake it more realistic

now on the rights side i have mirror and i put the person head into it and i used distor tool to distor the head where it looks natural in the mirror ...
if your goingt have the person shown then in ths case you need to have a shot of there back side... or what i did ijust did a quickie fill in to give the idea...

[jasonbrooks]

Hey JerryB,
Thanks so much! Any chance of getting that as a psd file so I can play around with it some more?
Thanks!
Jason

[jerryb]

hi,
let me get back to you on that... my regular file sharer site doesn't allow psd files but i may have a couple of others that may....

[jerryb]

hi,
new site i am using so hopefully everything works right

you can download the file from here
http://ge.tt/8bcK637