Reflecting Text

[angelize]

The basic questions are no problem, I'm always glad to help. I put together some screenshots for you. I'm using Designer pro so there will be some differences but the icons you need are the same.

Duplicate text (ctrl+K)

Flip the text vertically

The wineglass icon is the transparency tool click that and the first dropdown box is transparency shape you'll find linear transparency in this list. Click and drag from near the top to the bottom to adjust the transparency.

The Gaussian blur is a live effect. Click the little plug icon and click soften filters and in the submenu you will find Gaussian and some other useful blurring filters.

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's one using the horizontally flipped text with a linear transparency. Then gone one further by applying the deformation/even waves plug in to the reflected text.