Blue Daffodils Domain - Stained Glass Rose Tutorial for Paint Shop Pro 6


Paint Shop Pro 6 This tutorial was inspired by Marco's Stained Glass tutorial. He has a really fantastic site & if you're interested in computer drawn stained glass, his gallery is beautiful to look through. Before you start, you'll need some stained glass textures. I downloaded all of mine from Spectrum Glass. I found that a sneaky trick if you're in a hurry, is to download a few different textures in different colours, then use freeware Harry's Videorave Col@rize1.3 filter which you can down load from The Plugin Site. This works better than the colorize... option in PSP, as you can adjust the RGB values which gives you more control and a greater range of colours to get the exact shade you want. Another little hint is to use the browser in PSP to choose & organise your textures. You can drag the thumbnail anywhere in the browser ie. you can arrange the textures in colour order! This makes it a lot easier.
1. Create a New Image, 400x400 pixels with a transparent background.
2. Flood Fill the image with white. You may ask why not just create a new image with a white background to begin with - if you create one with a transparent background, it is automatically a layer to begin with which saves time and possible frustration later.
3. On the Layers Palette, choose New Layer. In the Layer Properties dialogue box that now appears, give the layer a useful name - we're going to use this layer to hold the image we'll be tracing, so I'm going to call mine "Tracing Pattern", nice and simple!
4. Click on the Picture Tube tool in the toolbar. In the Control Palette use the drop-down menu to find the tube you want. For this tutorial, I used the Coloured Roses tube. If you don't have it, you can download it from Jasc. Alternatively, use any other picture that takes your fancy. Although I call this tutorial "Stained Glass Roses", the technique can be applied to nearly anything. Whatever you choose, make it fairly large & place it on your new layer.
5. Create a new layer, like in step 3. Call this layer "Lead Edging", or something similar. Select the line tool. In the Tool Options - Draw palette, under Type choose Freehand Line, Style choose Stroked & make the Width about 6 (obviously this depends on the size of your initial image, but for a canvas size 400x400, 6 works well). Make sure Antialias is checked & that Create as vector and Close path are not checked.
6. Using a dark grey colour (Red = 128, Blue = 128, Green = 128 works well), trace the image of the rose onto your new layer. Don't worry about being too precise - stained glass in nearly always highly stylised and not very detailed.
7. You have a choice now, you can either make the entire rose the same colour stained glass, or you can use different shades. Using different shades takes a little longer, but the end result does look good. I'm going to colour in the petals first, so I open all the red stained glass textures I may want to use & minimise them along the bottom of the screen to get them out the way. By having them open it means that they are available at pattern in the Tool Options - Flood Fill pattern flood fill option.
8. Now that you have completed the tracing & opened the textures, create a new layer & call it "Stained Glass". This next bit can be a bit tricky, but I'll go through it slowly & we should be fine! Select the Magic Wand tool, setting the Tolerance to 20 & ensuring that Feather is not checked. On the layer named Lead Edging select all the areas you want to be one particular texture (you can hide the real image of the rose for this - it may make it easier. To do that, click on the little pair of glasses on the layer with the rose image). To select one area, just click in it with the magic wand. To make multiple selections, hold down the shift key at the same time as clicking the areas you want selected. Go to Selections/Modify/Expand... and expand the selection by 3 pixels.
9. Now go to your the layer named Stained Glass. Keep the petals selected! Now, choose the Flood Fill tool. In the Tool Options - Flood Fill dialogue box, use the following settings: Fill Style - Pattern, Blend Mode - Normal, Paper Texture - None, Match Mode - None & Opacity - 100%. Make sure that Sample Merged is not checked. Now select the second tab on the dialogue box. In the New pattern source: drop down menu, you should have the options of the textures you opened earlier & are minimised at the bottom of the window. You could open each one individually, but that can take time, especially if you're trying out different colours to see what looks best. This is just a bit quicker. When you have found the texture you want, flood fill the selection. As you can see, only a little bit of the grey is left between the petals - don't worry, we'll deal with that in a moment.
10. Repeat the technique explained above until all the areas you want to be coloured have been. Remember to swap layers and not to flood fill on the Lead Edging layer, for reasons that will soon become apparent. Obviously, if you have just wanted the rose one colour, you would only have done the above once. When you have finished, the image should look at little like the one to the right.
11. If you're anything like me, you'll probably find that the areas of stained glass in the corners may not have been totally selected when you flood-filled them & that they are now white. Not to worry, this is easy to fix up. Select the Retouch tool. Make the size 1, hardness 0, opacity 100%, step 1 and density 100%. In the second tab (Retouch Options), under the Retouch Mode drop-down menu, choose Smudge. On the Stained Glass layer, zoom in on the white bits you want to cover up and gently smudge the colour into the white area.
12. Almost there! Move the Lead Edging layer above the Stained Glass layer. To do this, click on the Lead Edging layer in the layer palette and drag it above the Stained Glass layer. The thick grey lines should be back now! Now, remaining on the Lead Edging layer, use the magic wand (with feather not checked) to select the grey lines. When they are all selected, go to Image/Effects/Inner Bevel... and select the Metallic preset. I find this one a bit light - I want my lead to look like lead! So change the Shininess to 60 and where it says Color change it from white to a medium grey (I used Red - 178, Blue - 178, Green - 178) and OK it. Keep the lead selected.
13. Last bit! Go to Selections/Modify/Contract... and contract the selection by 2 pixels. Create a new layer under the Lead Edging layer. To do this, go to the layer directly underneath the lead layer (it should be the Stained Glass layer) and create a new layer. Whenever you create a new layer, it is always placed above the current layer. Call this new layer Shadow. You should automatically be on the new layer - if you're not sure, check in the Layer Palette and see which layer is highlighted. Go to Image/Effects/Drop Shadow.... Make the Color - black, Opacity - 100, Blur - 10 & the Vertical & Horizontal offset's both to 2. The reason for contracting the selection and placing it on a new layer is that if you do not, it tends to leave an ugly white line around the image. This method makes it smooth and pretty!
You're finished! For some variations, go here.If you want to make it into a tube, delete the bottom layer the white background) which will give your image a transparent background, then go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible to make it into a single image with a transparent background that you can export as a tube. If you're not sure how to make a tube, you can go here to find out. To see some more of my stained glass, please go to Stained Glass tubes.
There are many different ways to create Stained Glass in Paint Shop Pro. Here are a few links to some other sites that have Stained Glass tutorials. Some use external plug-ins in addition to Paint Shop Pro, but they are all worth a look! The Hoods - using Harry the Raver Filters which you can download from here Leading Tutorial Graphics by Sarah Wagoners Tutorials Web Graphics on a Budget - Stained Glass from Vector objects Visual Sonnets Shadowymist

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