eaglefeathers Stained glass Tutorial

Whoo Hoo! its here

Thank you so much Bob, for all the time taken in putting this together for us, its so much appreciated.

Now just a little question, should I be using PSP 5,6 or 7 ideally to have a go at this?

Skye x

Bob are you hignoring me?

Only teasing you Bob

I have a job checking new posts too, and miss the odd one or two on occasions.

Thank you for your help, I am going to have a go at this over the weekend.

Skye x

Yes I can assure you all that every version had the ability to set the line width, you just have to set up your work area with the tools you use most. The help file soon shows you how to get at this tool and put it in place.

That's my tuppence worth

Bob,

Be prepared for a barrage of questions.

The first one being, I can't seem to find the glass samples that are required.

Did you have to become a member to download them?

Can you put the link on this thread to the page where they are please?

I am raring to go

Skye

Panic over Bob I have found them, and Fagin will upload the glass samples to his server for ease of use.

Thanks,

Skye

Ok here we go again, I am the mistress of daft questions

At the beginning of the tutorial when you are drawing the lines across the crowns, my last one still looks like charging ants, should it?

Skye

Once I get this photo exam paperwork out of the way then I too can settle down to continue with my own work. Nearly all day yesterday was devoted to ensuring my son had got all the photos he wanted sorted. Then the theory work which must be finished this morning. So have three hours before I have to go out.
At least I can download all the necessary files and have them ready for action. providing my brain cell hasn't gone on strike that is.

Aww Tricia, you have got a heavy load. It sounds like you are taking the exam with him. I do however wish him every success do let us know how it goes.

I am plodding on with it sporadically, as I too have trouble devoting time to things.

I am enjoying getting back into working with PSP though, and the inspiration that I will be able to do my own designs once I have completed the tutorial is superb.

Skye x

Yes I reckon I am taking it with him, it was the Einstein theory that left me with the headache yesterday.

Oh Gawd Tricia, I hope its all done and dusted now and the headache has gone.

EF, I have run into a few problems but rather than stop and ask then go again, I have kept going regardless.

I thought this way, even though the end result will not be correct, it might help others.

My first hiccup was drawing the long diagonal lines in the crown, the short ones I could do fine, but the longer ones going to the points in the center circle would not follow the template in a straight line and were jaggy whatever I tried.

The other little problem is you asked me to use "white glass" to fill one of the crowns however you did not as far as I know tell us to download white glass or tell us how to make it like you did the black.

I am going to download a white glass now and plod on with it.

As a result of my long diagonal lines not being spot on, I have not got perfect welds to my circle.

In fact it looks more like a bit of stained glass I would make, as I am not that good at welding.

I have really enjoyed working with the layers though, even though when I added in the new raster layer and called it black, my new piece of glass covered the blue piece I had already put in.

I fiddled with the layers, and ended up putting it on the background layer which I know is wrong, but it was the only way I could do it.

I am guessing I must have gone wrong somewhere in between adding the blue glass and making a new raster layer for the black.

I will get something finished today, but it will not look quite as it should for sure.

Skye

Oh yes this is certainly making things much clearer for me EF.

I am not sure if I will have to start again from scratch or not, quite possibly I will.

I don't mind as its making me more familiar with the program.

I have downloaded the white glass and understand what you are saying now about cleaning up after the placement of the colours.

I will try the diagonal lines again, and if I run into trouble I will send you a screen shot. I am working on the little lap top in the lounge, whilst our main computer is up here in the craft room.

So it just means saving the screen shot and transferring it to this PC.

I have not had chance to do anything today, I have completely reorganised the back workshop which houses all the tools, benches, tractor etc to make it more workable.

I will however be devoting more time to it very soon as I just love stained glass and want to learn how to do more curvy designs next

Thanks again for your patience.

Skye

Sorry haven't had time to do the tutorial, but reading this very quickly and I do mean quickly. So apologies if I haven't understood what you are asking Skye. What about selecting the area you want to fill with your magic wand then the marching ants appear then using your copying from the colour why not use Paste - Into Selection, it will then go into the marching ants then select none. Either that or what about using the flood fill again using that in the marching ants. If you set your material palette up high enough then the glass colour will show as you want it to show. You don't have to save the glass colours to the texture folder you can just pick them up from your PSP screen.
A friend of mine has been playing with a butterfly stained glass tutorial that she picked up from the internet, although this is a butterfly template not one to make from scratch.