Black glass reflection

AusQB · 03-14-2009, 06:14 AM

I'm sure you're all familiar with the fancy "glass reflection" text effect that many people use, but I have a particular snag with it.

If I know the background colour, it's simple to make the reflective text gradient into that colour, but what if I want to make it adaptive (ie. transparent)?

In PS Elements 6 I'm sure I was able to just specify a transparent background as a text effect, not using the gradient fill tool.

I'm using CS4 now, and I find it near impossible to achieve this same effect. If I copy the text and use it to cut out a shape on a transparent gradient, some of the edges are lost, making it slightly distorted.

Please offer any advice.

AusQB · 03-15-2009, 03:58 PM

With no help from this spam post above, I figured out the answer is a layer mask.

03-14-2009, 06:14 AM	#1
AusQB Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 167	Black glass reflection I'm sure you're all familiar with the fancy "glass reflection" text effect that many people use, but I have a particular snag with it. If I know the background colour, it's simple to make the reflective text gradient into that colour, but what if I want to make it adaptive (ie. transparent)? In PS Elements 6 I'm sure I was able to just specify a transparent background as a text effect, not using the gradient fill tool. I'm using CS4 now, and I find it near impossible to achieve this same effect. If I copy the text and use it to cut out a shape on a transparent gradient, some of the edges are lost, making it slightly distorted. Please offer any advice.

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03-15-2009, 03:58 PM	#2
AusQB Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 167	With no help from this spam post above, I figured out the answer is a layer mask.