Stained Glass Angel Tutorial

 

This tutorial was written by Amber Howard on July 1, 2015. Any resemblances to other tutorials are completely coincidental. Scripting and translating of this tutorial is forbidden. Do not copy and paste this tutorial anywhere else on the internet. Please link back to the main blog instead.

In this tutorial I used the artwork of Joerg Warda.

MyPSPTubes (MPT) is no longer selling artwork.

To my knowledge, this artist does not sell anywhere else.

Please do not use this or any artwork without purchasing a proper license first.

Supplies needed:
PaintShopPro — I used X7 but any version will work
Image and matching tube of choice.
Fonts of choice — I used Dillenia UPC and Caviar de Diane.
WSL Mask 53 and WSL Mask 90 by Weescotslass.

Plugins needed:
Eye Candy 4 — Gradient Glow
Eye Candy 5 Impact — Perspective Shadow
Filter Factory E — Metal Peacocks
Graphics Plus — Cut Glass
Lokas Artistic Effects — Ice
Mura’s Meister — Copies
Xero — Serious Fog

Ready? Set? Go!

Open a 400x400 canvas to start and flood fill with white.

Open your image of choice,

copy and return to your 400x400 canvas.

Paste as a new layer.

Resize the image layer by 65%, all layers unchecked.

Apply Mura’s Meister – Copies with the Wallpaper Rotate with the default settings.

Next, Adjust – Blur – Motion Blur with an angle of 300,

and a strength of 100%.

Repeat twice.

Rename this layer Blur 1.

Selections – Select All – Clip to Canvas.

Image  – Crop to Selection.

Duplicate the Blur 1 layer,

and hide the original.

Working on the duplicate, apply Filter Factory E – Metal Peacocks with the default settings.

Next apply Graphics Plus – Cut Glass with the following settings:

Still working on the same layer, apply Xero – Serious Fog with the following settings:

Apply WSL Mask 53 to this layer,

Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas, and Hide all Mask checked.

Right click on your Mask group, and choose Merge Group.

Rename this layer Mask 1.

Unhide the Blur 1 layer.

Apply WSL Mask 90 to this layer,

Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas, and Hide All Mask checked.

Right click on your Mask group, and choose Merge Group.

Rename this layer Mask 2.

In your layer palette,

arrange the layers so that Mask 2 is above the Mask 1 layer.

Change the settings of the Mask 2 layer to Overlay,

or a setting suitable to your tag.

Open the tube that matches your image of choice.

Shift +D to duplicate, and close the original.

If your tube has multiple layers, choose your favorite.

DO NOT RESIZE YET!

Copy the chosen tube into a new layer above the Mask 2 layer.

Arrange the tube so that it is on one side of the masked layers.

Duplicate the tube layer.

Image – Mirror.

Arrange the duplicate tube on the other side of the masked layers,

changing the position slightly.

Merge the two tube layers together.

Selections – Select All – Clip to Canvas.

Image – Crop to Selection.

Apply WSL Mask 53.

Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas, and Hide All Mask checked.

Right click on your Mask group, and choose Merge Group.

Rename this layer Masked Tube.

Change the settings of the Masked Tube layer to Overlay,

or a setting suitable to your tag.

Duplicate the Masked Tuber Layer.

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur with a setting of 10.00.

Rename this layer Masked Tube Blur.

Image – Canvas Size – Increase the canvas to 500x500 pixels,

with the central placement checked.

Open your tube file again, and choose either the same tube or another if it has multiple layers.

Resize the tube by 75%, all layers unchecked, or to a size suitable to your tag.

Copy and paste the resized tube as a new layer above the Masked Tube Blur layer.

Apply the following drop shadow using Eye Candy 5 – Perspective Shadow,

or a drop shadow program of choice:

Rename this layer Tube.

Hide the white background layer.

Edit – Copy – Copy Special – Copy Merged.

Paste the new layer above the Tube layer.

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur at 15.00.

Change the settings of this layer to Hard Light.

Rename this layer Full Light.

Grab the eclipse tool.

Foreground, any color of choice.

Background, null.

Stroke 8.00.

Holding down the Shift key,

draw out a circle just a bit larger than the WSL Mask 53 layer.

DO NOT CONVERT TO RASTER LAYER!

Drag the vector circle layer down in the layers palette,

until it is above the WSL Mask 53 layer.

Click the top-most layer on your canvas,

which should be the Full Light layer.

Grab your text tool and choose a font of your choice,

as well as a color of choice suitable to your tag.

I used Dillenia UPC for a font, size 24 pixels, color #1c2434.

Hover your text tool over the edge of the vector circle,

until it gives you the circular text icon.

Click and then add a saying of choice to suit your tag.

I used ‘heaven sent me a stained glass angel.’

Repeat the word or phrasing until it completes a circle around the mask layer.

Right click the text layer, convert to raster layer.

Rename this layer Circular Text.

You may now delete the vector circle layer.

Duplicate the Circular Text layer.

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur at 3.00.

Change the settings of this layer to Hard Light.

Lower the opacity of this layer to 75%.

Rename this layer Text Blur.

If needed, drag the Circular Text and Text Blur layers

beneath the Full Light and Tube layers.

Hide the white background layer.

Right click the top most layer,

Merge Visible.

Unhide the white background layer.

Choose a pixel font of choice, add your copyrights, license, and tagger’s mark.

Choose another font of choice, color – white.

Add your name.

When you’re happy with the placement, convert to raster layer.

Duplicate the name layer.

On the duplicate apply Lokas Artistic Effects – Ice with the default settings,

making sure to turn off the color overlay.

On the original apply a 3.00 gradient glow of choice in a color that compliments your tag.

Add a drop shadow of choice, or the one used on the tube.

Merge the two name layers together.

Duplicate the name layer once again.

On the duplicate, Adjust – Gaussian Blur at 3.00.

Change the settings of this layer to Hard Light.

Change the opacity of the original name layer to 85%.

Crop away excess canvas,

delete the white background layer,

save as .png and you’re done!

Thank you so much for trying my tutorial, I would love to see your results!

 

Below we have another example of this tutorial, using the artwork of Molly Harrison. You can purchase Molly's work at CDO. The fonts used in this example are Dillenia UPC and Mademoiselle Camille.