The Making of Simple Text Reflection Effect in Photoshop.

Creating a text reflection effect in Photoshop is fairly simple and i will show you just how.

Step 1.
Open Photoshop CS 3-6, and go to file and new..., the new dialog box appear and from that you can put the dimension of the graphic you want to create and you should know that this is really an important step.

Step 2.
Then create a new layer then fill it with light blue color, here is the hex value of the color "2387c9".
You can put the color value by click on the set foreground color icon and paste the value.

Next, select the new layer you just created and press Alt+Backspace or Alt+Delete. to fill the new layer with the foreground color which is the color you just selected above.

Step 3.
Write any text that you want to try the effect on, make it big and center it.
Select the text tool, place it on the place where you want to put your text and start typing.
the font i used is called "Trajan Pro", on of the best and the very old serif font, size is 53pt, type=regular.
and color="efffc0".

Step 4.
Go to the layers palette, select the text layer, which designated by "T" the layer's name will show "Ethiopia", and then press Ctrl+j.

Pressing Ctrl+J will duplicate any selected layer, in our case it will duplicate our text layer, and put the new copy at the top,
give it the earlier name plus copy.

Example.
here our original layer is called ethiopia, after pressing ctrl+j, the new layer will be "ethiopia copy".





Step 5.
While the newly duplicated layer is selected, go ahead and select move tool, from the tool box and bring the new text layer down, as shown below.

Step 6.
Now, lets flip the text at the bottom, upside down.
To do that, while the "ethiopia copy" layer is active  press "Ctrl+T", to access free transform, then right click
inside the box and select flip vertical option.

Step 7.
On this step will make the final effect, that is creating the illusion that the text is vertically reflected.

While gradient tool is selected, click on the newly added layer mask, go to the center of the inverted text and start dragging up until you reach half of the up right text, which is the text on top as shown below.

There you have it.a perfect text reflection using 7 simple steps.

You can download the PSD file from here.