As we've been told about how to create reflections I thought I'd go for something a little more challenging, getting a parrot to reflect on the water.
I started off with the two images (just found off google images) and placed the parrot image onto the water image, removing all the background I could. I then added some shadows onto the rock where I placed the parrot and some shadows on the parrot itself, so it would fit in.
Next, I created a copy of the parrot, added it to another layer and flipped it vertically. Obviously the colours wouldn't look right at this point, so I added a multiply layer blend to it, which gave it the depth I was looking for. After this I used the smudge tool to blue the reflection to fit in with the water.
All I did now was touch up some shadows and sort out the artifacts on the sides of the reflection by simply erasing it.
I'm quite glad with how the image came out, it's a good simple effect. What's wrong with the idea though, is that it doesn't look very "real" the pose of the parrot and the setting it's in don't exactly fit well together. Other than that though, it's been a good experiment.
(This image is saved as 1_parrotreflection.psd in the "Photoshop" directory, the progress images will also be found on the CD.)
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