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Post by ritage on Nov 8, 2016 22:31:41 GMT
I couldn't stay away from this and tried about everything discussed. It's an excellent tutorial, Thank you,Tom. For the leading a settled on a plain chrome layer style My favorite is still BillieJean's Swan. Have to try something white next.  |
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Post by Lillias on Nov 8, 2016 23:27:37 GMT
I couldn't stay away from this and tried about everything discussed. It's an excellent tutorial, Thank you,Tom. For the leading a settled on a plain chrome layer style My favorite is still BillieJean's Swan. Have to try something white next. Thank you ritage. Why don't you also have a try at adding a gradient for some of your colouring as I did with the swan. I think this adds another dimension to the finished item. |
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Post by ritage on Nov 9, 2016 0:07:52 GMT
Thank you ritage. Why don't you also have a try at adding a gradient for some of your colouring as I did with the swan. I think this adds another dimension to the finished item. BillieJean, I tried that in one version and it resulted in just a mish-mash. I selected the gradients to be compatible, but the glass effect, which I had in place already, makes them look something completely different. After changing them about a few times, I gave up.  That's also something I have to try again. Rita |
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 9, 2016 0:17:49 GMT
Thank you ritage. Why don't you also have a try at adding a gradient for some of your colouring as I did with the swan. I think this adds another dimension to the finished item. BillieJean, I tried that in one version and it resulted in just a mish-mash. I selected the gradients to be compatible, but the glass effect, which I had in place already, makes them look something completely different. After changing them about a few times, I gave up. That's also something I have to try again. Rita Rita, I had the same experience with adding a gradient. I have been testing placing the gradient under the glass layer and trying different blending modes for the glass layer. So far, Soft Light seems to yield the best results. |
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Post by Lillias on Nov 9, 2016 10:30:47 GMT
Rita, I had the same experience with adding a gradient. I have been testing placing the gradient under the glass layer and trying different blending modes for the glass layer. So far, Soft Light seems to yield the best results. I'm sorry that you are both experiencing problems with adding a gradient. I'm not quite sure what to say as I haven't found adding a gradient to be the same difficulty. I know it can be a bit fiddly getting it exactly as you want but that just means you have to keep re-drawing it till you get it to your satisfaction. Sepiana you mention placing the gradient under the glass layer. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here but ALL my colours including gradients are under the glass layer. Going by the tutorial the glass layer lies in between the Leading and Colour layers. I just had to add this example  |
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 9, 2016 15:43:18 GMT
Sepiana you mention placing the gradient under the glass layer. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here but ALL my colours including gradients are under the glass layer. Going by the tutorial the glass layer lies in between the Leading and Colour layers. BillieJean,
Whenever I create this kind of effect, I do the same as you. I follow the same layer order -- Leading>Glass Texture>Colors. This seems to be the standard layer order not only in this tutorial but in other tutorials as well. So, when I added a gradient, my stack order was . . . Leading>Glass Texture>Gradient>Colors.
I guess I didn't explain myself well when I said "I have been testing placing the gradient under the glass layer and trying different blending modes for the glass layer. So far, Soft Light seems to yield the best results." The "testing" part of my statement referred to the blending mode of the Glass Texture layer. The blending mode of this layer will interact with the Gradient layer underneath. The first blending mode I used produced very garish results. I got the best results with the Soft Light blending mode.
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Post by ritage on Nov 9, 2016 18:09:51 GMT
Yesterday I experienced exactly the same problems described by Sepiana above, also did the "testing" with blend modes with similar results.
This morning I started from scratch, made a new glass layer and used the same gradients as yesterday-----and they work perfectly well with no actual color distortion except they come out a little darker. I believe, BillieJean, you mentioned that somewhere above.
My only conclusion is that there must have been something wrong with the glass layer, but I have no idea what.
Have no time to follow this up now, but will try again.
Rita
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 9, 2016 18:26:22 GMT
Yesterday I experienced exactly the same problems described by Sepiana above, also did the "testing" with blend modes with similar results. This morning I started from scratch, made a new glass layer and used the same gradients as yesterday-----and they work perfectly well with no actual color distortion except they come out a little darker. I believe, BillieJean, you mentioned that somewhere above. My only conclusion is that there must have been something wrong with the glass layer, but I have no idea what.
Rita, I am not sure if this will help or create more confusion.
I did my testing using two different glass textures I had created a long time ago -- a color one and a B&W one. The results I got with the B&W glass texture were much better. It went really well (once I got the right blending mode and the right amount of Opacity).
BTW, I am talking about the glass textures in this thread.
Stained Glass Textures -- FREE!
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Post by Lillias on Nov 9, 2016 18:30:10 GMT
I guess I didn't explain myself well when I said "I have been testing placing the gradient under the glass layer and trying different blending modes for the glass layer. So far, Soft Light seems to yield the best results." The "testing" part of my statement referred to the blending mode of the Glass Texture layer. The blending mode of this layer will interact with the Gradient layer underneath. The first blending mode I used produced very garish results. I got the best results with the Soft Light blending mode. OK thanks for the clarification Sepiana I understand now. Rita glad you got it to work today. You can lighten things up a little with a levels layer. I'm sure you will do it. |
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Post by Tpgettys on Nov 9, 2016 20:31:05 GMT
But a good start Janice! I think one important detail is to insure that your starter image is at least 1000 pixels on each edge. Yours is rather smaller than that, which will impact the look of the glass layer and also the leading bevel. Also, there have been some great suggestions given in the thread, so I hope you will give it another try. |
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Post by hmca on Nov 9, 2016 23:14:33 GMT
Another one.....  |
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Post by Squirrel2014 on Nov 9, 2016 23:41:21 GMT
Hi
I just love these stained glass effects. I'm desperately short of time at the moment (too much to do and deadlines looming) so I don't have time to try this yet but I most certainly will do as soon as things quieten down.
However, may I ask as to where you get the image to start off with, please? I'm totally flumoxed as to where to start looking.
Many thanks
Julie
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 9, 2016 23:47:49 GMT
. . . may I ask as to where you get the image to start off with, please? I'm totally flumoxed as to where to start looking.
Julie, go back to the original post in this thread. There are two links to sites where you can get such patterns.
www.photoshopelementsandmore.com/post/28454
I myself used this site -- downeaststainedglass.com/sgbds/free2/
As a side note -- You can also create your own patterns. Check some of the categories for the Custom Shape tool. Ex.: Ornaments
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Post by blackmutt on Nov 10, 2016 1:33:08 GMT
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Post by Tpgettys on Nov 10, 2016 2:51:10 GMT
Julie, go back to the original post in this thread. There are two links to sites where you can get such patterns. As Sepiana said, I did provide a couple of links to a large number of images. However, if you click on one of them, you should see some buttons on the right side of the screen. If you click the Visit Page button you will be taken to the site the image came from. Many of these sites contain many more images, and often there is additional info about stained glass, suggested colorings, tutorials, etc. It can be a lot of fun drilling down and finding delightful and interesting info related to stained glass. |
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That's also something I have to try again.
