lynxster4

Thank you dear Seerose! Love the kitty...

Thank you so much Limon! I'm glad you like them!

Thank you, Red. I don't know where all this coming from, but I hope it keeps up! @Nai....thank you! @toe_head...thank you!

@ toe_head2001...another interesting plugin!

Thanks TR! I'm glad you like my efforts.

NEW SHAPES PACK!! 'Stained Glass' Hi fellow PDN users! This is a follow-up shape pack to support my stained glass endeavours. These were designed to be used in 'outline' mode only, though most will work in the other 2 modes. Use for practicing your stained glass effects or just color them as you see fit! A lot of these designs are taken from 'suncatchers' I actually have hanging in my windows! The pack is available in post #1. Thanks! And keep on creating!

Danke.

Thank you, Seerose. Yes, I am aware of Ella's tutorial. Slightly different than mine, but nonetheless good! I rep'd you on page 20 of your gallery. Beautiful work!

Yes Seerose, that's all you can do....SAVE often (like after every step)!! That's what I'm doing. These stained glass pics are very complicated with many layers. Maybe we are over-taxing PDN?

Is anyone going to help you??

OMG! The world is ending!

(I read the referenced thread). Mmmmmmm......why both of ours are crashing, I don't really know. We are both using V4.09. I suspect it was the size of the pdn file. When making the 'lily stained glass', you have about 32 layers. And I'm a 'power user'.....click, click, click.....(maybe I need to s-l-o-w down).

Pixie, that rose is just lovely! Again, really nice color combinations! I'm glad you are enjoying this tutorial! I'm out of reps....I'll catch you when I'm re-stocked! Done!

That is good Seerose; more RAM can never hurt. But try the tutorial with the simplified steps! My PDN crashed also, for the same reason (insuffient memory), and I have 16 GBs of RAM installed!

@MJW....I will try this when I get some time. Unfortunately 'work' is getting in the way!

Hi Seerose! I took the liberty of downloading your crash report and also saw the "System.OutOfMemoryException: Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program". When I was making my initial creation for the tutorial, my PDN also crashed; like 5 times! I don't know much about what would make it crash, but it could have something to do with the number of steps involved (and I execute them fast). I simplified the tutorial and cut down on a lot of steps....maybe this will help?? Thanks, Lynxster4

Thank you, Red!

Pixey, that is just fabulous! Love your color combinations! Bravo!! Right back atcha'

@MJW....I am forever grateful that you stopped by and suggested your plugin. Works beautifully! I'm editing this tutorial pronto! Thanks, again! (Your plugin will always be in the back of my mind now)

@david.atwell.....I am honored that you pinned this! Thank you so much...it means a lot to me. or (My first pin!)

@MJW...thank you for the suggestion! I'm going to try it. I have close to 400 files in my effects folder and sometimes you forget everything you have available to you. (You get tunnel-vision.) I'll let you know if this solves the 'gap' problem because it would eliminate a lot of steps! @TR....thanks bunches! I really appreciate that comment!

I've been known to pull all-nighters! Haha! Your welcome! Looking forward to seeing your result, Max.......

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it Hi, fellow PDN users! I've had two requests to make a tutorial on this subject after I posted some pics in my art gallery. This is for TR (TechnoRobbo) and Max (Maximilian) and everyone interested in an opalescent stained glass effect. And a special 'shout-out' to Seerose because I'm using a Water Lily or Lotus flower for this tut. I've attached the shape below. Plugins required: Align Object pyrochild's Gradient Bars gaussian-blur-clamped-v20-by toe_head2001 AA's Assistant BoltBait's Bevel Selection Metallize MJW's-edge-expander Optional: pyrochild's Outline Object Water Lily Shape.zip This file goes into your 'Shapes' folder under Program Files, paint.net Here's the end result we are striving for: Create your outline using color 255,195,0 at about 6px wide. Align object. Duplicate layer, making the bottom layer black (turn lightness down to -100 via Hue/Sat). Turn off top gold layer and work with the black layer. Select the colors you are going to work with (I’m starting with the petals…I used P-255,73,119 S-255,255,255). 1. Magic Wand, tolerance 69-70%, select one of the petals 2. Create a new layer directly above 3. Effects—Render—Gradient Bars (play with all the settings until you get something you like) 4. Effects—Blurs—Gaussian Blur (clamped) at a radius of your choice 5. AA’s Assistant at default Repeat these 5 steps on all flower petals. You should have 15 layers. Do the lily pad next, repeating the above 5 steps with green shades of your choosing…I used P-47,168,37 S-167,229,165 Do the water next, repeating the above 5 steps with blue shades of your choosing…I used P-0,140,220 S-94,244,255 for the lighter blue areas and P-3,19,115 S-56,243,255 for the darker blue areas. Now for the ‘leading’. Turn off the bottom black layer and go to the gold layer at top. Do (1) AA’s Assistant. Magic Wand, global at 50%, then Invert Selection. Adjustments—Black and White Effects—Selection—Bevel Selection at 3, Strength .70, Highlight Color – 127,127,127 Shadow Color – 0,0,0 Color—Metallize, Angle of Start – 160, Type 1, Gray Scale checked. Do (1) AA’s Assistant and turn lightness down to -30 via Hue/Sat Merge all 'glass' layers down to one underneath the finished 'leading' layer. Select the 'glass' layer. Effects--Object--Edge Expander (I used a Maximum Distance of 3, and everything else at default) The Edge Expander works beautifully and saves a ton of steps! ((You can still 'Outline Object' every individual 'glass' layer, if you choose (in lieu of Edge Expander), so I left pyro's plugin in the tut as optional.)) Merge all layers down and you are done! This gives the result above with a silvery lead solder. ***If you want gold ‘leading’, Metallize at about 316, Type 2, uncheck Gray Scale. You can now delete bottom black outline layer. ***If you want a dark patina finish, follow the gold frame instructions, then duplicate the layer. On bottom outline layer apply a Lightness adjustment of (-50) via Hue/Sat. On top outline layer, apply a Lightness adjustment of (-30) via Hue/Sat and set layer blend mode to Multiply. Examples of gold and dark patina finish can be found here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/45133-lynxster4s-art-gallery-updated-3416-new-pics/?p=513127 Keep in mind that this is only one type of ‘stained glass’. There are many other types which I am exploring. You can't really do this 'wrong'. Opalescent glass has so many color variations to it...this is just how I choose to do it, trying to keep it as simple as possible. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and have fun making ‘stained glass’!! I'm looking forward to seeing your results! *Revised the tutorial to include MJW's Edge Expander plugin to solve the 'gap' problem in fewer steps. **Revised 3/12/16 to include MJW's steps to keep layers down to the minimum. I have added this as an alternate method to construct any stained glass picture. I tried it and it works very nicely! All colors are on one layer. I did this in 20 minutes: Thanks so much MJW! This is much appreciated and should cut down significantly on PDN crashes. There's always a better way to do things. I hope you don't mind that I attached this to the tutorial.

Mind = Blown! TR, that is really creepy-looking...and I don't mean that in a bad way! It just gives me the heebie-jeebies. (spelling?) It's really good! Thank you. And I don't see a koala...my head is spinning too much. Ha!

Seerose....you are blowing my mind!!! Beautiful pictures!!!