Reflections and Distorted images - How?

Hi,
I've seen quite a few flash files out there mimicing the
apple 'cover flow' so I know this is possible....
What I want is to have an image in a movieclip (which I will
load in dynamically from an xml file...) - I'll then animate this
cip onto the stage from the side (simple transition). All pretty
straight forward, but I also want to have the image slightly
distorted - as if its slightly rotated in 3d - and also have
relfection underneath.
Does anyone know an easy way of doing this? I have found a
reflection class (from pixelfumes) which works well; and is easy. I
did find a distortion class, but the 2 dind't seem to work
together!!
Can anyone help? a couple of simple classes would be better.
Just on a side note - I dont really need to animate the
distortion - simple set it to a specific angle.
Cheers,
Tim

you should apply the distortion first, then apply the
reflection using your own code so there's no problem with code
conflict.
the reflected image will be your distorted image with an
xscale or yscale of -100 with a decreased alpha and translation to
the correct position.

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