In the comments to my post from yesterday about creating shiny buttons with Inkscape I got asked about "simple howto about how to create planes with reflections of existing objects". Does someone think I can resist?
I wrote a simple howto about this effect for both Inkscape and GIMP ![[EN]](http://nicubunu.ro/gfx/flags/en.png)
. And for those who like it this way, there is also a Romanian translation ![[RO]](http://nicubunu.ro/gfx/flags/ro.png)
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All the materials included on this page are free to use, but if you find them useful, pretty please (this is not a requirement, only my humble wish) send an email to dioanad at server gmail.com with thanks for motivating me to publish some content and expressing your unhappiness to the same person for destroying my motivation to publish even more.
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Wow, awesome! Thanks very much, I always wondered how to do such things :)
I start to love Inkscape (and Gimp) just by reading your tutorials. Before, I've never been able to do something nice at all. Keep that good work up :)
liquidat, I am always happy to help!
red, it makes my day brighter to see such positive feedback, thanks!
I love it! And I also hope for some other great inkscape tips...
Ups! There is one awesome trick I didn't know about, is possible to use a gradient as a mask to get progressive transparency for very complex objects.
I updated the tutorial and blogged about this neat trick.
Never knew Inkscape can do that! Thank you for solving my problem and teaching me one more small piece of useful knowledge!
Great, very easy to follow tutorial. Just trying reflection for my blog logo. Thanks very much!
Hi Nicu, thanks for the tutorial and all the other ones you have done for Inkscape. You seem to be holding up most of the sky here.
I have learnt a lot and figured one extra thing (standing on the shoulders of giants!):
I always think the reflected image should have some perspective, not just on your examples but in general on these web 2.0 type titles so I figured out how to do this in Inkscape. You probably know but I have put it on my blog at http://blog.beara.ie/?p=343 for others
@Dave: that link seems to be broken currently...
Umm, yes it seems to be mis behaving alright. Thanks for the headsup. I can access it from the url directly but it does not appear on the front page... it's a mystery....
The tips entry at http://blog.beara.ie/?p=343 seems to be working again now.
Hello There, I am a newbie to Gimp,I am still downloading tutorials. I just want to say that your how to is very easy to understand and I think you should put some of your work on this site:www.instructables.com there are quite a few fans of gimp who use the photography section.It is were I found out all about this software, re:after veiwing a topic subject showing you how to put a 3D effect on to a photograph.I think with your skill you could quite easily take it to another level...Thanks again for unselfishly putting your work on the net, so that people like myself can learn from it.
Paul
I got stuck at the part that says 'make a duplicate and place it under the original image'. How do I do that?
Right click on the object and select "Duplicate" from the context menu (or press Ctrl + D or use Edit > Duplicate). Then with the duplicate selected move it under the other object by using the "lower selection one step" icon from the toolbar (or press Page Down or use Object > Lower)
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