Triangle Tutorial
I've been meaning to do this for a while, I just finally got around to it now. Here's my tutorial for the way I do digital mirroring. At the moment I have two main ways that I mirror Images. One is the "square or rectangle method" and the other is the triangle method. Pictured above is a pretty simple visual lesson but I will try to explain it in words.
The photo above the blue line is the original photo. I have drawn a red triangle to show the section I used for digital mirroring. Step one is as simple as that, well, almost. I am using photoshop to do all my mirroring. So first I make a square marquee selection of the part I want to mirror. (keeping in mind that I will only use half of the square selection.. a triangle) then I crop it (or rather delete everything outside the square selection so I have lots of working space) Then I make a new layer with a square at least twice the size of the one I just made. I turn it 90 degrees so it looks like a diamond and I use that to cut out the half of the original square that I don't want to use.
Ok now we are below the blue line, the bottom part of the above photo.
Once you have your triangle (which is half of a perfect square if you made it like I did) you then duplicate it on a new layer, rotate it so the diagonal edges line up. (it should be quite obvious if it is lined up right) Now you should have a square.
And that brings us to the "square mirroring method" Duplicate the square you just made on a new layer and flip it horizontally and join it with the first on the side that matches. Merge these two layers, duplicate on a new layer, flip vertically this time, line them up and BAM! There it is, a new spin on your original photo.
Triangle Tutorial
I've been meaning to do this for a while, I just finally got around to it now. Here's my tutorial for the way I do digital mirroring. At the moment I have two main ways that I mirror Images. One is the "square or rectangle method" and the other is the triangle method. Pictured above is a pretty simple visual lesson but I will try to explain it in words.
The photo above the blue line is the original photo. I have drawn a red triangle to show the section I used for digital mirroring. Step one is as simple as that, well, almost. I am using photoshop to do all my mirroring. So first I make a square marquee selection of the part I want to mirror. (keeping in mind that I will only use half of the square selection.. a triangle) then I crop it (or rather delete everything outside the square selection so I have lots of working space) Then I make a new layer with a square at least twice the size of the one I just made. I turn it 90 degrees so it looks like a diamond and I use that to cut out the half of the original square that I don't want to use.
Ok now we are below the blue line, the bottom part of the above photo.
Once you have your triangle (which is half of a perfect square if you made it like I did) you then duplicate it on a new layer, rotate it so the diagonal edges line up. (it should be quite obvious if it is lined up right) Now you should have a square.
And that brings us to the "square mirroring method" Duplicate the square you just made on a new layer and flip it horizontally and join it with the first on the side that matches. Merge these two layers, duplicate on a new layer, flip vertically this time, line them up and BAM! There it is, a new spin on your original photo.