Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create a beautiful, stained glass window
from a photo.
First, choose a photo you'd like to use for your background. This will be the scene
that you see through your window.
Then, choose a colorful photo you'd like to use for the stained glass.
I downloaded this image from Shutterstock.com.
We'll work on the background first. Let's protect it by making it into a Smart Object,
so anything we do to it will be non-destructive.
Click on icon at the upper right of the Layers panel
and choose, "Convert to Smart Object". Go to Filter,
Blur and Gaussian Blur.
Blur it 5 pixels. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Make a new layer above the background
by pressing Ctrl + Shift + N on WIndows
or Cmd + Shift + N on a Mac. When you see this window,
type in "glass pane leading". Then,
click OK or press Enter or Return. We'll fill the empty layer with white
and since white is the background color,
press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete. Click on the foreground color
and for Brightness type in 20%. This gives us
a dark grey color, which will be the color of the lead strips.
Then, press Enter or Return.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery. Open the Texture folder
and choose "Stained Glass". The cell size creates smaller or larger cells
and the Border Thickness makes the leading
thinner or thicker.
I'm choosing 46 for the Cell Size and 8 for the Border Thickness,
however, depending on the size and resolution of your background photo,
you may need to adjust these amounts to get a similar result.
Go to Select and Color Range.
Choose Highlights.
Make the Fuzziness: 100% and the Range: 255. Then, click OK.
Press the Delete key to delete the white shapes
and deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
You may see a subtle, white fringe surrounding the leading.
To remove it, go to Layer
Matting and Defringe.
Make the Width: 1 pixel.
Notice the white fringe is now gone.
Next, we're going to give the leading some dimension by giving it a bevel.
Click the "fx" icon and choose Bevel and Emboss.
The Style is Inner Bevel,
the Technique is Smooth, the Depth is 100%
and the Direction is Up.
The Size is 5 pixels and Soften it: 0 pixels.
The Angle should be anywhere between 120 to 135 degrees
and the Attitude is 30 degrees. The Highlight mode is Screen
with an Opacity of 75% and the Shadow mode is Multiply
also with an Opacity of 75%. Then click OK.
Now, we're ready to begin
adding the stained glass to our window pane.
First, click off the eyeball of the leading to hide it. We'll make it visible again
after we create the colored, stained glass. Open the photo of your image.
We need to separate the subject from its background
by making a selection around the subject. There are many ways to do this,
so choose the method that's the easiest and most effective for you.
For this example,I'll use the Quick Selection Tool.
If you're using this tool as well, just drag your cursor over the subject to select it
selected
and to add a selection over an inside area,
hold down Alt or Option, as you drag over it.
Since, white areas will ultimately become white pieces of stained glass,
it's not necessary to fill in alll of the white area's if they're small.
Press Q to see it as a quick mask. If there are areas you need to retouch,
open your pencil tool and keep the hardness
at a hundred percent to reduce the size of a pencil tipped
press the left bracket key
now we touch those areas press Q
again to revert it back into a selection
press Control command J to cut the subject from its background
and copy it to its own layer Press lead to open your move tool
and track your image arch the tap if you're staying class document
without releasing your mouse or pan track it down
onto your document and release to reduce
or in larger image to fit in the document hoping your transform tool
by pressing Control our command T if your image is too large
as in this case you may not be able to see the transforms bounding box
to see it press Control our command 0
go to a corner and when you see a diagonal double arrow
hold down shift and alt on Windows or shift and option on a Mac
as you drag it and
once you're happy with its size and position Press
Enter or Return to fit it back onto your screen
press Control our command 0
converted into a smart object
and control click or command click on it to make a selection
a bad shape click the layer mask
icon to make a layer mask the selection
click the thumbnail your stain glass subject to make it active
go to filter and shelter gallery
this time we'll choose a smaller cell size
and border thickness
change the blend mode to multiply
next will surround the stain glass contours with the let's strip
to do this click the FX icon
and choose stroke make a size
8 pixels and the position is outside
then click OK or press Enter or Return
as you can see the stroke is too thick and bumpy
so we need to fix it click the layer mask to make an active
and go to select and we find mask
track smooth all the way to the right
as well as the contrast then click OK
now that the surrounding let's strip is smooth we still need to make its
thickness match the thickness of the leading
in the stain glass pieces to do this
double click on the stroke effect and for the science
type in an amount that match the thickness at the leading in the stain
glass
right down the amount because we're going to refer to this number later
then press Enter or Return
the next bunch of steps will give the leading dimension
click the background to make it active and make a new layer
above it type in white then
click OK or press Enter or Return
well fill the empty layer with white and since white
is the background color press Control our command plus delete
next we need to temporarily remove the color pieces
leaving just the leading to do this
double click on your smart object to open your original image
we're going to fill it with white assuming your background color is still
white
press Control or command plus delete then
press control or command ass to save it however
do not close the document normally we would close the smart object to affect
those changes however
in this case don't close it open back up your stank last document
and you'll see that the collar is now gone
hoping your channels panel if you don't see it go to window
and channels control-click or command click on the RGB thumbnail
to make a selection up its shape then in front the selection
by pressing Control or command shift II
open back up the Layers panel and make a new layer
name it leading
fill it with your foreground color by pressing alt
or option plus delete the selected
and click back on the table too smart object to open it
go to the history panel if you don't see it
go to window and history there should be only two levels
in history panel open and fill layer
click open and your smart object reverts back to its original state
click the small acts on the right side up the tab to close the smart object
and when you see this warning click yes to save the changes
immediately the stain glass colors reappear because the smart object has
been updated from a white background to the original
fish now let's set the devil to the leading
click the FX icon and click devil
and boss will keep the same settings as before
then Press answer or return
height the white layer and under the smart object
height the stroke effect this instantly cleans up your stain glass
place your cursor on this icon and double click it to at the shelter
blending options at the smart object
this window will appear change the blend mode
to scream then click OK
next will increase its contrast and vibrancy
to make the stain glass really come alive
click the adjustment layer icon and choose brightness contrast
go to your subjects layer mask hold down
alt or option and Rec a copy of it hot topic the adjustment layers layer mask
if you see this warning click yes
click the adjustment layer icon next to the layer mask
and adjust the brightness and contrast I'll increase the brightness to 20
and a contrast to 100
quickly adjustment layer icon again and this time
choose vibrance
as before go to the layer mask all down
alt or option track a copy on top
up the vibrance layer mask and quick yes
click a vibrance icon and slide the vibrance
and saturation all the way to the right
the final steps will place abstain glass onto the clear glass panels
make a top layer active on topic this layer
well-placed a composite snapshot of your image
to do this press control shift alt
E on Windows or command shift
option he on a Mac
control-click or command click on the layer mask to make a selection ovett
shape
go to select modify and expand
expanded by the same amount of pixels you wrote down
earlier for the leading that surrounds your stain glass
image in my case it's four pixels
then click OK the selection should be flush with the outer edge of the leading
press Control or command J to cut your stain glass from its background
and copy it to its own layer now
we can trash the composite snapshot since we don't need it anymore
make your glass pane leading discipline again to complete your stained glass
window
this is Marty from Blue Lightning TB thanks for watching