I am in awe of all the beautiful work! I can not tell you how many "glass" animals I've made and I've not been satisfied. I think I'm working with line art that's a bit too detailed. Will have to give it another try this evening.

Dalia, these images are beautiful! You did a great job! I know that sometimes it is hard to find a picture or line art that is suitable. If starting from a picture, I put it into black and white or invert colors first just to see what the highlights will look like. Sometimes you must do prep work on the image first.

Dalia, Wow! I love your images in clear glass. I like them a lot!
Pat, you really amazed me. Very nice work, not easy to prepare it. Fantastic result!

I’m still searching for a suitable sparrow, Issabella. At the moment very little time to practice on Gimp.

Issabella, Dalia and Pat

Ella, I'm sure you will find a nice sparrow for your creation. You have a lot of nice style.
I've invested some time on these results. Following the OMG's technique but then removing the background and replace it for other black/dark one. Playing to see new effects. No bad IMO. What do you think?

Issabella, so very beautiful! Very artistic and imaginative.

Issabella, you're the master of this effect. Gorgeous results!

Issabella - brilliant results and I have said several times that we must have 'like minds' because you have now hit on the exact concept that started me off on my 'clear glass' journey.

Here is the BRL image (obviously not glass) I originally created some 15 months back, but which I then used as the impetus for the glass exploration and following bonanza!



Dalia - they are good results

I also mentioned a little while back that I was trying to get 'clear glass+ highlights' results from colour images. I think one of Dinasset's scripts using GMIC filters may hold the key, so more exploration is required!!

Whatever, I encourage all thread participants to explore further options.

Thank you so much for your nice comments, Pat, Dalia and OMG. I find this thread so innovative, where you all make so brilliant result. OMG, I love your result. It's really cute and much my taste. I'm following this idea in some variations. Here I leave you some of my tests. I have sorted them in clear glass because although they are in colour the method applied is "clear glass".

Issabella - I am very pleased to see your results. I have been working without success to find a way of doing the clear glass approach from full colour images rather than black and white line art.

I have tried quite a number of GMIC filters to try to find a way to replicate the 'highlights' that typical B/W line art provides and which is so important in defining the shape/contours of the target image. Unfortunately my limited GMIC experience has not turned up a 100% method and whilst, I can get B/W highlights based on colour, even when I use GMIC 'contours' filters it does not give me the solution I was seeking.

Maybe Issabella, you have something that works for any colour image.

But I will post something a bit different that I discovered on my journey today - clear but darker glass ...

OMG, I love your results. They are really awesome and your colour glass is outstanding. Mine isn't so sophisticated. I work on B/W draws or templates, even grey draws too. What I do lately, when I get the highlights, is apply a background colour/texture or simply black colour under the result. I'm still looking for a nice way to apply. Not always is the same for each template and many times is frustrating. However you are on the way, that colourful glass is really unique.

Beautiful work! Definitely one to try!

OMG & Issabella: Both of you do fantastic work. Shows a lot of talent and creativity.

Pat thank you so much. I'm happy you like it. I really apply the basic concept that OMG thought us and then I add, remove etc. trying to find the right way at my taste and not always is right.
I try to find templates in B/W as this one, where lines are well definite.
I've kept the layers of this one, just in case you like to take a look.
OMG, when you can, could you explain how you got your dark glass? I love it.

PhotoMaster, Pat625 and Issabella - thank you for your kind words.

Well Issabella what a tough task you set me

Here is a hopefully short treatise on the workflow I have used over the last couple of days in seeking various darker glass solutions -

1. In all cases I was using JWildfire fractals as my backgrounds
2. In all cases I used GMIC 3D Image Object to create the cup images from that background
3. In all cases I then created a seamless blended layer of that cup using GMIC>Layers>blend seamless
4. In all cases I used the worklfow from the original clear glass tutorial except that I did separate selections for the visible cup interior to stretch it and make it more natural looking when the glass layer was applied; I also frequently deleted the glass interior layer below the copied background layer
5. Then I started playing with adding the seamless layer, adding the original cup layer, adding a copy of the original cup layer having done a colour invert on it
6. Then I started playing with the blend modes and opacity levels all over the place

So as a result in some cases I got what I wanted but in others I did not

However, in summing up I think that just applying to a 'selection' of the glass object, a colour/gradient layer in 'overlay' mode on top of all the glass layers will give you darker or coloured glass to your liking ... well I hope so anyway.

Here are some samples of my travails ...





... but I had a lot of fun too.

Issabella, finally found a sparrow
I downloaded your file to have a better look. Thank you!


OMG your outcomes are very inventive. Beautiful work!
As I said earlier, at the moment lack of time to practice, but

Thank you so much OMG, for your explanation about the process. I have to test everything as you are a master in this technic.
Your images will help, sure.
Ella what nice images and results. You found the right ones for the effects.

OMG: Brilliant! I always wonder "what next?"

Ella: Very nice sparrow!

Issabella: Your castle is beautiful. Your art work very creative.

This tutorial excites! Wonderful outcomes OMG, Issabella and Ella Louise, love that little sparrow; perfect.