Thursday, October 6, 2011

Stained glass windows

While I haven't been making much jewelry recently, I have been busy learning new things - namely Adobe Photoshop.  I want to do more stained glass window bangles, but I've never grasped Photoshop and as I need to do some photo manipulation, I've been working through the AdobeTV tutorials. They are really are good. 


When I was at the cathedral in SF on Sunday, I took quite a few photos of the windows there and so have lots of material to jiggle around with on photoshop.  There are some contemporary windows and also more traditional ones at Grace, so it'll be interesting to see how they all work out.


I get a great deal of satisfaction learning new things and while I had tried photoshop before, it was more just me fiddling around and trying to figure things out, rather than actually going step by step and following tutorials etc. It now makes much more sense and I can see myself using it for lots of different things.


And soon, there will be new bangles - if my manipulations work out!


Do you use photoshop in your work? 

(Oh dear! Looking at this post now, you can see that I am really my father's daughter! Some of you may recall his "Sunday's spotlight" blog posts, with photos of stained glass windows in them!  Am I on the same slippery slope :-D ????????)

2 comments:

vilterietje said...

thanks for the link!!!!!
and all daughters catch up with their fathers:))

Sue McNenly said...

I'm interested in following the tutorials. I don't use Photoshop for anything but reformatting...Illustrator is my life, and I found it a bit difficult to learn.

I will definitely try these...they could inspire some new work. Thanks for the idea.

Can't wait to see your new bangles when they happen.