Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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You can easily find information on stained glass classes, articles about how to make stained glass, links to stained glass studios, where to get free patterns and much more.

We hope you enjoy your visit and look forward to answering any questions you might have regarding stained glass.

Recent Articles and Posts:
CD's for Backing Up

Backup Your Stained Glass
Patterns To A CD Or DVD

We can't emphasize how incredibly important backing up your patterns is. If anything should happen to your hard drive, you could possible lose all of your patterns as well as everything else on your hard drive. Backing up to another hard drive is always a good idea, but what if that drive also fails? Or perhaps your entire computer system gets infected with a virus?

Read more: Backup Your Stained Glass Patterns To CD Or DVD

 
Sun Catcher

Creating Stained Glass
Designs On A Mac Computer

This guide will provide the basic information on how to easily take any image and make it into a stained glass pattern which can then be printed it out to any size using any standard printer. If you wish to resize an existing pattern, please see this related article. Creating your own pattern from any existing image is easy and soon you will be turning out your own unique custom designs.

Read more: Creating Stained Glass Designs On A Mac Computer

   
Software

Comparison Of Stained
Glass Software Options

You don't have to have any high-end graphics programs to create quality stained glass patterns, any inexpensive software such as Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop Elements will work perfectly well. Also, free software for the PC called MS Paint comes on every PC sold and for the Mac, I recommend Seashore. If however, you do have some professional software such as Illustrator or Photoshop, you will of course be able to create patterns easily.

Read more: Comparison Of Stained Glass Software Options

   

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