: How to create a stained glass effect in Photoshop There are few ok tuts online, but I haven't found a way to give an image the marblelized clear shiny opacity like real stain glass. Any

@Murray976

I think where most of the stained glass tutorials fail is in capturing the irregularities that glass has. Filters work with patterns, and the final result is usually not very realistic. An example of real stained glass:



When using filters, the result is usually flat. Glass looks sort of the same in the whole window, they loose the craftsmanship beauty the real ones have.

I'd recommend you take a more photographic approach to the problem. If you are using Photoshop, instead of recreating the effect with filters, use actual pictures and play with the blending options.

We don't normally put stack photos here, but I'm finding it very difficult to locate some that will show the range, so here are some ideas from iStockPhoto:


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