Stained Glass

The term stained glass refers either to the material of coloured glass or to the art and craft of working with it.

As a material the term generally refers to glass that has been coloured by adding metallic salts during its manufacture. The coloured glass is crafted into stained glass windows in which small pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures, held together (traditionally) by strips of lead and supported by a rigid frame.

First find an image that is a line art, (just a black line), here is mine:

Create another Layer and color it in white, then click the eye next to it to make it invisible.
Then go back to the original Layer, (the background Layer) and select just the black outline.
Copy that outline in a new layer, and put that Layer on the top of the Layer Palette.

Create another Layer and put it on top of the Layer Palette.
Get the Pen tool and start drawing lines, like the ones on the picture, make this lines one pixel smaller then the original outline of the drawing:


OK, the hard part is over. Now on a new Layer color your drawing, just the girl, (skin, hair, clothes,). Make the Layer with the lines you drew with the Pen Tool invisible. Here is howI colored my picture, you can use your own colors if you want:

Now you need a texture, if you cant find any, use this one, i found it on Google and put it under the out line, then experiment with the blending options :





Remember that white Layer we created in the beginning and made it invisible, well make it visible. Now color that Layer with what ever color you want.

After that, give the outline drawing and the lines with the pan some Bevel and Emboss. Don't worry about the values, put your own, there aren't any universal values for this, its up to you.


Its a good idea to put more Layers to colorize the background, here is what I mean, and my final version: