How To Make Text Reflection Or Mirror Text Using Photoscape

This is a text effect tutorial for Photoscape. 

Making text reflection for text effects is easy using the free photo editing software, Photoscape. You can create great mirror images and mirror text for use on blog headers, website banners, forum posts, etc. So let's get started. Shall we? 

Open up Photoscape & Click Editor. Click Menu and choose "New Photo". This is going to be the canvas for our text. 

Click menu & new photo to begin making reflective text in Photoscape.

Type in the size you want your canvas to be. In my example I'm choosing 500 as the width and 100 as the height. You can change the background color, but I'm sticking with white. Click "OK". 

  

Click the "Object" tab. Click the "Text icon". Choose a nice font. I'm chosing a large, thick font (Strenuous). 

Type your text. Note: I'm going to include clip art in my reflective text so, I'm typing some spaces to have room for it. Give your text a shadow effect. Click "OK".

Choose a bold or large sized text for great looking reflective text. 

Adjust your text to fit inside your canvas. If you're adding a clip art like me, Click the "Photo icon" (still under the Object tab) & click on heart. Click on a heart image. Click "OK". Adjust the size of the heart and position it where you want it to appear on your canvas. 

Click the "Crop tab" and crop your canvas so that the bottom of the text is close to the edge. Click "Save cropped area". Name your reflective text and choose a file type JPG. Choose file quality you want and click "OK". I keep the quality of mine at 95%.

It's a good idea to crop text so bottom is close to edge of the bottom.

Look to the left and find the file you just saved. I saved mine to the desktop so I click desktop. Click on your file when you've found it. A dialog box will pop up saying edited photo was not saved. However you saved a cropped copy of it, so click "NO", not to save file. Your cropped text should now be showing in the viewer.

 

On the "Home tab".  Click on "Filter". Click on "Reflection" in the list. You should see that your text has a reflection or mirror effect showing in the viewer. Adjust the options as you wish. Click "OK".

You can adjust the size, level, perspective, and background color of reflective text.

Click Save to save your reflective text. That's it! You've just made reflective text to use as a banner, blog header, or other uses. 

I love using Photoscape, don't you?

Happy photo editing! 

Which Free Photo Editing Software Is The Best?

There are a lot of free photo editing software available on the Internet. Which one is the best? I like several different ones. My top three that I use more often are Gimp, Pant.net, and Photoscape.

I use Gimp for heavy duty jobs. Gimp is a very powerful image editor. It has tons of features, many which I have not yet figured out.

There is a huge learning curve for Gimp. However, Gimp is very popular and everybody and their grandma have created brushes and other plug in software for it.


Paint.net is the photo editor I use the most because it is quick and easy. It's like buda bing, buda pow, and you're done for basic photo and image editing. I love to use Paint.net to create banners and such.


Photoscape rounds out my top three free photo editors. I like using Photoscape to make GIFs and animated banners and avatars. It is so simple and quick. Also, I love the additional clip art and freebies that come with Photoscape.

I really can't choose which of these three is my absolute favorite because each one does a better job than the others on certain processes. Again, Paint.net is for quick and easy tasks. Gimp is for heavy duty projects. Photoscape is so much fun to use. It's user friendly level is somewhere in between Paint.net and Gimp.

So, which free photo editing software is your best? Take my poll located on the side bar.

If you have not yet tried either of the software mentioned above, you can download them for free at c/net's Download.com. Try Gimp, Photoscape, or Paint.net and let us know what you think.

Happy photo editing!