Timeline for is there a way to clone and mirror at the same time in Krita?
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| Feb 15, 2021 at 21:50 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @user6376297 Yes, a reflection in water is a view of the scene from a lower angle of view, from water level, much like if you place a mirror on the floor, it shows the underside of objects reflected above it. To draw or paint it, if you don't have a reference photo or a real scene to copy, you somehow have to imagine what that scene would look like from below. | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 20:24 | comment | added | user6376297 | Thanks, that's very interesting, I bookmarked it. Indeed, I had started reflecting (no pun intended) on this. If I look at a table placed on a shiny floor in front of me, I will see mostly the top of the table, whereas the table's reflection on the floor will show the underside of the table. And in the picture I pasted above, some of the objects I see from their direct light, I could never see reflected in the water, as their light would have to go through other objects in front of them... So yeah, if one really wants to be accurate in doing this, it takes some clever thinking. No free meal. | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 12:21 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @user6376297 - I've also found an article here which discusses creating reflections in paintings. It goes into some detail of the physics involved. Not a simple case of a flipped copy of the scene. There's a lot more to it. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 21:04 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @user6376297 There's a nice tutorial for GIMP here to create water reflections, maybe it could be modified for Krita, or alternatively just do it in GIMP since it's free too. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 20:47 | comment | added | user6376297 | Yes, there are some tools to distort the image with sinusoidal functions. Krita is great! Here however I was more trying to understand how the image itself forms, physically. And in fact I might have an answer. I'll post it. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 20:27 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @user6376297 - maybe you are looking for some sort of filter to create ripples. Not sure if Krita has this as standard, but I believe G'MIC can work with Krita, and it has Ripple, and Sinusoidal Water Distortion filters. I use G'MIC often with GIMP. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 19:49 | comment | added | user6376297 | Thanks! I will try. I'm going to add an example to my post. Not the original question, but I think it raises interesting points about how light reflection and its interaction with water. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 14:03 | history | answered | Billy Kerr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |