![]() ![]() The easiest way to draw straight lines is to click the starting point, then hold Shift as you click the end point. You can replicate this effect by drawing on the leading layer with a hard-edged brush of the same size as the stroke – 6 pixels, in this case. ![]() In real stained glass windows, the glass area is broken up into small, manageable chunks. Now make a new layer, and choose Edit > Stroke to draw black lines along the selection border. You now need to remove the image of Craig from that selection, and you can do this by holding Command Option (Mac) or Ctrl Alt (Windows) as you click his thumbnail. Hold Command (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) and click on the thumbnail of the Background layer in the Layers Panel to load it as a selection. Strips of lead hold the glass in place in a stained glass window, so we’ll create those next. The easiest way to do this is to open the Hue/Saturation dialog, check the Colorize button, and increase the Lightness as you play with the Hue and Saturation settings. This makes it much easier to select the individual elements. I used the Background Eraser Tool to take all the white out of the graphic background of this image. He’s still recognizable, but looks more hand-painted. The easiest way to make this image of Daniel Craig look more painterly is to use the Poster Edges filter, found in the Filter Gallery. ![]() Stained glass windows are painted, not photographic. I also removed the text over the body, and added a blue tint that will make more convincing stained glass. I used the Select Subject tool to isolate Craig, and copied him to a new layer. There’s a clear distinction here between the photograph of Daniel Craig and the graphic background. This is how the Photoshop filter creates stained glass: it divides the image up into random, irregular polygons, and averages the color within each one to create a posterized effect. Here, I’ve used a poster for the new James Bond film, No Time to Die. You can use just about any image as the basis for your stained glass – even mixing photographs with graphics. It’s very much a one-trick pony, though, producing a thoroughly unconvincing mosaic effect that’s nothing like real stained glass. Photoshop has a built-in Stained Glass filter, located in the Texture section of the Filter Gallery. ![]()
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