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

[Mort]

Yar me scurvy sea dogs number ones the one for me yaaaar etc....:P

[JimmyPin]

Originally posted by 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

nice thx for the quick tut
-i'll give it a run but i'm sure ppl will try puting themselve out-of their misery when they see mine by throwing rox thru it

[anne54]

Jimmy Pin, I have a huge collection of glass textures-----most I made myself,
some I adapted from photos of real glass, a few were with permission from Spectrum Glass.

I will share those with you if you or anyone else....but WARNING, it's about 12 megs of downoading.

Shoot me an email if you want them.

Anne

[anne54]

PS....

I forgot to mention the glass textures
are already online, broken down into
2 meg zip files so you don't have to
download all files at one time.

You can weed through and delete any
you don' t like. Although there are about 400 of them I rarely use a texture as is;
I customize them to suit the individual picture.

They are not seamless but some are quite large.

Anne

[curtg]

That's awesome work! I've never been a big fan of stained glass, but this is outstanding. The transparency lends a nice effect, but I would think it would be a bit more blurred (unless those panels were plain glass of course). I guess I'm the odd one out and like the first one better.

[Viika]

after some speculations about over-excessive oooohs and aaaaaah i decided not to oooohe or aaaahe too much.
but in this case:


OOOOOOOOOOH and AAAAAAAAH
and furthermore: