Stained Glass Generator by Zep Palen

Cool and good that this is already available and like much what you have done here.

I think that the most important difference here is that you can load shapes, masks and also texts (from black and white designs) and they will converted to this stained glass effect and making a variable tesselation on the outer part and more complex in the inside

Here are two examples that Zep Palen have shown already in this thread





Like very much the idea and the possible uses this can have when loading a already made black and white design and you can get something like the example shown here above

Thank you both. I hope it is useable.

I noticed that the uploader changed the outcome of my presets that I uploaded so it looks much different than the presets that comes with the filter.

This is so beautiful!

I like this filter much :)Thanks for making it:)
Is there a way to have the background not be all the same pattern,so that each cell would have different oriented piece of glass, not only a different color, but different pieces, possibly arbitrarily rotating the contents of each cell so it breaks up the pattern?

Probably be slow but wondering if you tried it.

Thank you all. I am happy to hear you like it.

ddaydreams: Yes I actually tried that (something similar) and it made a 5 x rendertime with tha, but I am working on some other way doing it without it adding too much rendertime.


EAdams: What links do you mean?

To Zep Palen: I meant the link to my image wasn't working. I had to upload my image to a different photo hosting site to obtain a usable link. Now it seems to be working. Love this filter!

To Zep Palen: I could have used two renderings to get the two colors, but instead I simply used my original drawing of the ankh as a inverted mask on the red rendering and changed the color of the ankh with a hue adjustment in Photoshop.

It was worth updating to FF4 just to be able to use this one filter! Thanks again.

Ghislaine. Thank you.

Concentric circles target collage

and here is in more detail

Using Preset 6 and modified some settings

Thanks very much for making and sharing this filter

Good to see those various examples.

I agree that an invert checkbox would be a good thing and I will add that to the next version.

I will however still keep the Image loading function where it is now. I prefer having "related" controls "grouped" together.

I will also add an "outer frame" option so that an outer frame can be added with same thickness as the master cell joints.

EAdams it looks good.

I was wondering if I should make Hue, Sat and Lum controls for each cell section. Then you would not have to mask anything in PS after.

I hope that the outer frame option is still being planned for this filter. With the filter as is, I experimented with adding a black frame to the original image (in the example below a simple black shape on a white background), thinking to crop out the frame afterwards, leaving the encircling joint around the image. This didn't turn out well because the crop doesn't leave a natural-looking outside edge.

Original image:


Filter render:


After cropping:


It is possible to render a nice-looking outer wire frame by adding just a thin black outline around the original image instead of a thick frame as in the example above. I haven't yet experimented with different thicknesses at different resolutions to see what works best.

If the filter ever is updated, I would like to see the default previews replaced with more vibrant ones. This great filter is really underselling itself because the previews are so drab

Yes, good filter.

EAdams. Your last images are really nice. Also the choice of the original subject is interesting: I like the shape.

Oh! I had forgotten about this cool and very good filter and the excellent effect given



The Silver simulation of the edges looks really realistic and well done and in organic style, and the best is the excellent way it does the variable tesselation with different sizes of holes in such great way

And here is the result from this filter using multi color

And thi sis the result in multi color mode

And using Preset 1 without multi color unchecked to be dark red

You can see here that using preset 1 settings the white areas have bigger holes than the black areas from the original source image above

and here is the result with preset 1 with one color, where you can see that plain white areas have much bigger holes than black areas