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Landscape Reflection Effect in Photoshop | Photoshop in 2 Mins | Photoshop tutorial

Updated: Nov 6, 2022

In this tutorial , you will learn how to create this awesome Landscape reflection effect in Photoshop and make your Landscape photos look amazing. By looking at the final image below the effect looks complicated but it is so simple that it will be completed in just 2 mins so just follow the steps mentioned below and learn how to create it for yourself . So let's get started!






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Steps on how to create this Landscape reflection effect in Photoshop :-


  • So the first step is to create a duplicate of the image by pressing CTRL + J


After pressing CTRL + J
  • Then press CTRL + T to open the free transform tool


After pressing CTRL + T
  • After that right click on the image and select Flip Vertical over there and then click on the tick icon


Right click on the image and select Flip vertical

After that click on Tick icon
  • Now make the background layer active by clicking on it


Make background layer active
  • Then select Ellipse tool and set the following for tool


Select Ellipse tool

Set pick tool mode as Shape and Stoke as No color
  • And now using tool draw a circle and press SHIFT while dragging in order to draw a perfect circle


Press SHIFT while dragging to draw a perfect Circle
  • Now right click on the top layer and select Create clipping mask over there which will clip the image in the form of Ellipse


Right click on Top layer

Select Create clipping mask in the option

Image after clicking on Create clipping mask option
  • Now make the ellipse layer active by clicking on it and then using move tool place it properly


Make ellipse layer active

Select Move tool

Place ellipse properly using Move tool
  • Now you can also place the image inside ellipse properly by making top layer active and then place it properly using move tool but for this I feel it is perfect

  • Now make ellipse layer active if it was not and then click on Add layer mask icon


Make ellipse layer active and then click on Add layer mask icon

After clicking on Add layer mask icon
  • Then select brush tool and set brush as soft round also set the foreground color as black


brush tool icon photoshop
Select brush tool

soft round brush photoshop
Select brush as soft round

Set foreground color as black
  • Now using brush left click and hover over the parts of ellipse you want to remove


Now left click and hover over parts of ellipse you want to remove
  • As you can see that border of ellipse is still present (For all version of Photoshop this line may not be present) so in order to remove that right click on Ellipse layer and select Rasterize layer over there


Right click on Ellipse layer

And select Rasterize layer over there
  • So this will remove the line from the ellipse and give you your Landscape reflection effect

landscape reflection effect photoshop
Final image

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