
this should work with LS18's mirror, which i think, has no glass.
will have to play with this
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Mon 1 Aug 2011, 6:09,
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will have to play with this

it's quite a different approach.
It wouldn't work for me until I reduced the fill opacity of the circle layer (the one set to deep knockout) to 0.

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Mon 1 Aug 2011, 6:16,
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It wouldn't work for me until I reduced the fill opacity of the circle layer (the one set to deep knockout) to 0.


I've used a mask here to block out the glass on the magnifying glass layer.
In actual fact, the magnifying glass source I used had some light reflections and frame shadows on the glass, so if instead of using a black mask you use a grey one, it leaves some of the glass features intact as an overlay.
Here's the magnifying glass I used so you can see what I mean about the glass
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Mon 1 Aug 2011, 6:26,
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In actual fact, the magnifying glass source I used had some light reflections and frame shadows on the glass, so if instead of using a black mask you use a grey one, it leaves some of the glass features intact as an overlay.
Here's the magnifying glass I used so you can see what I mean about the glass

I'll have a play with this method later.
going back to mine, you can create a copy of the mirror, change the transparency and place it over the top, if you want to retain reflections, or distortions that the glass may create
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Mon 1 Aug 2011, 7:38,
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going back to mine, you can create a copy of the mirror, change the transparency and place it over the top, if you want to retain reflections, or distortions that the glass may create