Clear Glass Brumbies (wild horses) Landscape

[Dalia]

Pat, you're not kidding about the addiction. I've got a slamming migraine but just had to work on one (for now). My favorite little bird.

[Issabella]

Dalia, I love your clear glass humming bird. Beautiful!

[Dalia]

Thank you Issabella. Everyone's work is so beautiful and I really like this tutorial - I learned something about the paths tool, how to make my own line art and the use of BRL.

[Ella]

The outcome as in the tutorial.
Flipped the shadow because the position of the sun. also blurred it a bit, as the sun shines not so bright in the evening



Here I added a dark gradient to match with the evening background, layer mode overlay.



I saved the file, in case anyone has remarks to improve it


Thank you for the detailed tutorial oldmangrumpy


Dalia, beautiful your hummingbird with tulips

[dinasset]

it looks perfect to me, Ella.
You did appropriate changes to the standard way of doing it.

[Ella]

Thanks for your comment dinasset.

[oldmangrumpy]

Ella Louise - that is a brillianr rendition and I am so pleased that you amended my tut instructions to fit your background scene

Very well done

[Issabella]

I absolutely agree with OMG, Ella you got a perfect result with your horse in the right dark atmosphere. You have talent Ella, Well done!

[Pat625]

Ella: I agree with OMG and Issabella. Your images are beautiful!

[Ella]

Thank you for your comment OMG. It means a lot to me.
It was a good tip to experiment with the selection and the layer mode. The gradient gave the outcome an extra dimension.

Issabella and Pat625, thanks for your kind words.
I think I had a bit luck with the choice of the right photo and of course the good tutorial from OMG.

[Dalia]

Ella Louise that is outstanding, perfect and your choice of the photo just confirms your eye for beauty.

[Pat625]

Ella: Love your horses! You were able to get that clear glass look.
Dalia: I love Hummingbirds also. Have a feeder for them when they return north. Your glass ones are perfect!

[Pat625]

Just visiting! Love this tutorial!!!

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[dinasset]

very clean crystal butterfly, good outcome!

[Pat625]

Thank You, Dinasset.

[oldmangrumpy]

Dalia - I somehow missed your humming bird first time round and that is a shame, because it is a beautiful interpretation

Pat625 - sometimes addiction is OK when you come up with excellent results; I love your exquisite glass butterfly

Because of the recent revival of this thread, I thought I should try something out that was bugging me; as well as clear glass, I also wanted a result with thicker glass and more texture, but still virtually transparent. So let me know what you think about this slightly different approach with these too wedge tailed eagles -

[dinasset]

to me, it looks very nice, OMG!

[Ella]

Thanks Dalia and Pat.

Pat, I also tried a butterfly but didn’t like the outcome. Yours is beautiful

OMG, I like the eagle outcome. With the original tut the objects look more fragile.
I think it depends on which item you want to edit to see what the best result is.

[Pat625]

OMG: I love those Eagles. Very exact but clear. Did you do them differently?

[oldmangrumpy]

Thanks Dinasset, Ella Louise and Pat.

Yes Pat there are a number of different steps involved, yet to be finalised and tested more. I also used a coloured image of the eagles and not line art as part of my GMIC learning exercise. I will try out a few more and if they seem to work OK, I will then tell you GC guys just what I did.