Apply a Reflection to Your Text

Ever wanted to mimic that reflective text effect you see in many sleek advertising images? Well here is how to do it, step by step!

Create a new image (300x300 pixels) and choose your text application tool. (Set font to Impact, 48pt)

Go ahead and enter some text, and when you're done, create a duplicate of your new text layer (drag this layer onto the new layer icon, it will automatically create a clone of the layer you dragged) and slide it down to align the top of this cloned layer with the bottom of the original layer. Before we proceed, lower the opacity of this layer to 25%. Your image will look like this.


Now, to make it believable. Go to the reflection layer's styles, and apply a gradient overlay to it. Leave the overlay with its default settings, only click the checkbox to reverse your gradient. Voila, instant reflective text!