Stained glass from a photo........

[anne54]

A lady from the GardenWeb Forum sent me the address of her web site and asked if any of her daylily photos could be rendered into stained glass.

I have always worked with my antique prints, never with a photo so I decided to try it.

Here is the original photo

http://stamphistory.net/temp/daylily00.jpg


Here is version 1 of the stained glass

http://stamphistory.net/temp/daylily01.jpg


Ashworks wanted to see transparency in the glass, so I tried for that in version 2.

http://stamphistory.net/temp/daylily02.jpg

Which do you like better?

[Phil_The_Rodent]

number two is brilliantly stunning. OMG you've done a beautiful job. You are absolutely astounding at this type of work.

[anne54]

Coming from you Phil, my heart goes thump, thump, thump. Wow, thanks

Anne

[Exodus]

Both are superb!

I agree with Phil. #2 looks incredible.

[Edited on 17-11-2003 by Exodus]

[JimmyPin]

seriously, that's awesome!!
how'd u do it?
(jaw drops here)

it looks real- i used to love watching a local artist make that stuff in physical reality, wow!!

[loiosh]

I bow down before your greatness.
'Scuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. Ya know, if you hadn't said that this was PS I would have sworn that it was a real world stained glass piece. Absolutely phenominal! I like the one with the opaque background glass best, but they're both superb.

[Ashworks]

told you that you need transparency!! ha! great work, it truly is stunning.

[w@rtistic]

....... dunno what to say its a amazing

[anne54]

Thanks again everybody.

Ashworks, thanks to you I found out I could do the transparency thing.

Loiosh, I like #1 better too, but I bow the majority opinion.

Jimmy Pin, how did I do it? I started out by making a new layer ABOVE the photo background image, and doing a tracing of the flower petals. I do it with mouse and hand, but that is not as tedious as it sounds. On an empty layer you can just erase mistakes and fix those. I hand painted the leading on the outer glass panes.

With the leading isolated on a layer, you can emboss it if you like that look. I like the black better.

I used the freeware plugin Simplifier to texture the flower. I almost always use
Eye Candy's glow to slightly darken the edges of the glass panes.

Plus some detail work and toucing up

Thanks again
Anne

[uk2usadaz]

OMG number two, it takes my breath away