Is there a way in PS CS2 to create the infinite mirror effect? I’m talking about a picture with someone looking at oneself in the mirror, with a second mirror behind the subject, so that the subject image goes on and on, get’s smaller and smaller, towards negative infinity?
If so, can someone please point me to a tutorial or site that shows one how to do it?
That’s often referred to as "video feedback," and version 3 of Kai’s Power Tools had a great little filter for producing it. KPT3 could be tough to acquire legally these days…I don’t know for sure, but that’s one place you could find what you need.
It occurs to me that you could produce the effect manually by duplicating and transforming the layer. It’s a matter of how many feedback loops you want to simulate and how much time you have. Shouldn’t be too difficult.
The real creativity comes when you decide at some point to put an Alfred E. Neumann image into the mirror, rather than a reflection. See if the viewers notice (if it is five or six iterations down).
I am assuming that in order to create the "video feedback", or "mirror feedback" effect with KPT, that I will need two photos, one frontal and one rear photo of the subject – is this correct?
True, Corel now owns "current versions" of KPT, but KPT3 for purchase is gone, and the Video Feedback filter is gone with it. The reason I said it might be hard to obtain it legally is because the only sources I find for it are "crack houses."
Hmmm… that does complicate things a little. Video feedback is what you would get pointing a webcam at your monitor–a one-sided affair. So your starting point would have to be an image showing front and back & I don’t know how well that would work. I believe you would find it easier doing this manually.
John, are you sure Video Feedback was in KPT 3? I have a bunch of KPT filter sets, including 3, but I don’t seem to have that one. Maybe I’m just not seeing it yet because I am looking at the plugins in Windows Explorer.
I am adding filters to PSCS4 one at a time in case something causes problems, and so far, I haven’t installed any of my KPT filters yet. I didn’t use them much in recent years, so I can’t remember whether or not that one showed up in earlier versions of Photoshop when I applied filters. I also only have the CDs and not the boxes anymore since I bought some of them back in the 90s, others, (Goo, I think), came either with an HP scanner or an Epson printer, and the rest I got from Corel when they had a special bundle offer about 3 or 4 years ago. (It included the KPT filters, some of the Auto FX software, Bryce 5 and Bryce Lightning, and Painter IX. It was a really nice bundle)!
I found the filter in KPT3. I guess I should install them to my CS4 and see what I’ve been missing. Most of the time I only use Super Blade Pro for text effects and Nik Color Effects Pro to help with lackluster photographs. I never use my other filters much, so many of them are useless for what I do.
Wonderful effects and a real cool interface but it’s something you try out and marvel at and then forget it. I think it’s a rite of passage that all Photoshoppers go through.
I installed all of my KPT filters into PSCS4, and they are working, but yeah, they’re pretty useless, even though they have cool interfaces. Must be why I never used them before.
Of course it’s true that in real-world, everyday, blue-collar Photoshopping, plugins like the KPT’s are applicable on a nearly-never basis. But, over the years, I’ve had a few occasions to use them, usually to produce one elemental aspect of an overall effect. Like JJ said, they are a "right of passage" of sorts, but not necessarily an unhealthy one, even if they only amount to a chest of mind-expanding toys.
Hi there Katherine, You mention that you installed your KPT filters into PSCS4. How did you get them to show up? I have KPT Effects (version 7, back when it was marketed under the ProCreate brand) and I tried installing them last night. They showed up in the Plug-Ins folder alright but they wont show up in the Filter menu. Is there something special you needed to do to get them to show up and be able to use them?
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