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Tips to Create Stained Glass Patterns

Submitted By: david in Arts Tips category

These days stained glass paintings have become a craze. You may often find stained glass design on window panes made of glass. On first look of this design, it seems that making stained glass design needs real experience, but after going through these tips mentioned here, it will be as easy as a pie. You can use this technique to create glass paintings, lamp shades, mirror frames, window hangers, etc. There are basically two types of glass paintings. One in which glass pieces are etched and then stuck to each other to create interesting objects like lamp shades and window hangers. The other type of painting is in which paints are used on glass to create a beautiful glass painting. The two pictures given below illustrate the kinds of glass paintings. Here you are provided with some tips to create stained glass patterns. Go through these tips and you will find that designing a stained glass painting is not a really difficult task.

Tips to Create Stained Glass Patterns

Many people have great interest in creative activities and they may have great interest in stained glass painting. These people, who pursuit stained glass painting as a hobby, buy the patterns online. This becomes quite expensive and also you may end up buying something that you don’t quite like because of the limited choices. So it’s better to create these stained glass patterns yourself. One thing that you must keep in mind is that the overall look of your glass painting would depend both on the design you select and the perfectness with which you paint it. Even if you select a better design and you are just not creative enough to use right contrasting colors in the painting, your glass painting may not look as attractive as expected. If you are creative, you can sketch your own pattern on a piece of paper and get it enlarged to the required size of your glass. The most popular method to create a stained glass pattern is to design them on the computer. If you like a pattern from a book, you can get it photocopied and enlarged to the required size.

We’ll discuss some guidelines and tips to create stained glass patterns on a computer

Install Paint or Adobe Photoshop on your computer if you don’t have it

Select a picture or a photograph that you would like to create a stained glass pattern from. There are ample pictures to be downloaded from the internet. You could also scan your own pictures. But before you select a picture, you need to keep 2 things in mind. First thing is to select simple pictures that can be broken down easily into lines to form the pattern. Secondly, the picture should contain contrasting colors as this will help the software tool to recognize the edges. Pictures that are dark or that have shadows are difficult to convert to patterns. Clip arts, drawings, cartoons etc. on the other hand are easier to convert. The basic idea here is to have the tool to be able to differentiate between the background and the object

Load the picture into Photoshop or Paint. Convert the picture to jpg format and crop and trim unwanted areas of the picture.
Convert the image to grayscale; this becomes simpler to work with
Use the layer tool to trace the object. Once done, delete unwanted lines, converged lines and objects to make the pattern look good and neat.

And there! You have your pattern ready to be used for painting. You can follow some websites rather to get more ideas and know how to create a stained glass pattern.

The above discussed tips to create stained glass patterns can help you design a stained glass painting on your window glass or other glass articles at your home

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