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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:00
How To Use A Tiled Pattern
Tiling is nothing more then taking a picture that would be too large to print on a standard printer and breaking it down in to smaller pieces that would each then fit on a standard sheet. Here is an example of what a tiled pattern looks like, notice that we have pointed out the cut marks in red on the first piece:Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:22
Resizing A Stained Glass Pattern
Resizing a pattern is really not very difficult, but requires a few steps. There are a ton of free computer graphics software programs out there that will allow you to easily resize a pattern. The most popular free software for the PC is call MS Paint and it comes on every PC sold. For the Mac, I recommend Seashore. I know many people prefer Gimp, but it is a huge file to download and does a lot more then you will need for simple resizing. If you have Photoshop, you can also use it, of course.
Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:22
Digitizing your own stained glass patterns
If you look around you, pretty much anything can be a candidate for conversion into a stained glass piece. All you will need to make a pattern will be a computer, a scanner and some relatively inexpensive software such as Paint Shop Pro
or Photoshop Elements.
One other source of possible patterns are images that you find on the internet.
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