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• Etched Glass Effect in Photoshop
  by Alison Johnston

  You can make this an etched glass effect, or, by inverting the filter, make it appear as though the shape/type/whatever is moulded in the…

  You can make this an etched glass effect, or, by inverting the filter, make it appear as though the shape/type/whatever is moulded in the glass. Because my glass is light, I will be using a black filled shape. If your bottle or glass is dark, the type/shape/whatever, would need to be white. So lets get straight on with it. You can click through on my glass image below to get the larger start image, or you can use one of your own. Just remember that any settings I use are relevant to this file 720 X 1000 @72dpi. Your first step will be to create a new layer above the b/ground layer and then fill it with white … turn off the visibility of the layer by clicking on the little eyeball icon next to the layer. I’ve chosen the ‘Flower Oranment 2’ which is a Photoshop default shape, and I’ve drawn it on the glass …. see image below. Make sure that you are working on the Shape Layer (or type – making sure the spelling is correct) and go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, a small dialogue box will appear asking you to rasterize the shape or type, click OK to make that happen and then choose a small amount of blur. I have used 2 pixels on this particular image … which might be a tad too much …. we’ll see. Next you are going to create a flattened copy of the image and save it to your desktop…or somewhere that you will remember, because we are going to be using it shortly. Go to Save As and when the dialogue box appears, make sure that your uncheck ‘layers’ and check ‘copy’ See image below. Now, duplicate the original b/ground layer and turn off the visibility of the shape layer and the layer you filled with white. Working on the duplicate b/ground layer go to Filter>Distort>Glass and the Filter Gallery dialogue box will appear. Look at the right hand side of this box and notice where it says Texture, click on the small arrow and a small box will appear that says load texture, click on this and load the file that you previously saved. As you can see, I called mine Flowerdistort. You can fiddle with the Distortion and Smoothing, but you will have to leave the Scaling as is. You can also check and uncheck the Invert box to see which variation you prefer. Once you have the settings as you like click OK to make it happen. And here is the image with Inverted checked. And that’s it. Fiddle around with the settings a bit till you get what you want, and remember that if the bottle, glass etc., is dark you will need to reverse the colours i.e. the layer will be filled with black and the shape or type would be white.

• Glass 5% full OR Don't give up the day job
  by Geoff Coleman

  I know talk about money is really crass (hey we’re all in this for the art alone afterall hehe) but I thought you might find the followin…

  I know talk about money is really crass (hey we’re all in this for the art alone afterall hehe) but I thought you might find the following amusing and/or of some interest. First the good news – I’ve just realised that over the last 10 months I’ve made my first (he says optimistically) thousand dollars from photography – yay!! Now the bad news – I figure I’ve outlayed in excess of $20K on photography equipment and related expenses in the last 2 years – booo! So that means I’ve made back 5% of what I’ve outlayed – so glass 5% full! And if I can just STOP buying stuff then, at this rate I figure I’ll break even by about 2028 – yeehah! Unfortunately I don’t seem to be able to stop buying stuff – I got so excited about making my first grand that I’ve gone gear shopping again – sigh – $850 down the tube. So I guess that actually means the glass is really 0.75% full and that I’ll break even in 2158. Ah well if you can’t pass on debt to your kids what’s the point in having them I say! Anyway – what I thought you might be interested in is the breakdown of sources of income – it really surprised me: 1. Sales and commissions arising from hanging pictures in my office at work – $610 / 2. Sales from local gallery/giftshop – $240 / 3. Sales and licencing from RedBubble – $218 / 4. Sales from 4 group art gallery exhibitions – $132 In short – exhibiting at work accounted for about 60% of the income and in my local area (where most of my shots are taken) another 25%. In other words if people have some sort of connection to you or the place you take pictures of, plus they can physically see your work, you are more likely to sell it. The exception to the latter for me seemed to be Gallery exhibitions where, in each case, not only my pictures failed to sell but almost every other photographer also failed to sell. Given the cost of gallery exhibiting I’ve come to the conclusion it’s a dead loss for landscape photography. / I also have to say although sales from RB have been a relatively small proportion of tthe total – most of the total sales I got involved me showing my RB site to prospective purchasers and I’d have to say that not only being able to show my photos but also the range of formats people can get them in, actually helped secure most of the sales of the framed prints I sold. One more thing – most of the sales I’ve made have been of prints that I printed and framed myself. I’ve not found it to be more cost-effective to do it myself (the cost of DiY printing and framing and getting framed prints from RB is very similar, in fact really quite a lot cheaper from RB when you consider the labour – DiY framing is an absolute bugger I find). But what I’ve found is people really prefer a titled and signed print in the frame by the photographer over one that isn’t from RB. Maybe RB could create a new category of individually signed and titled mattes for prints at a higher price than unsigned to cover the cost of sending mattes to photographers for signing and then having them sent back – pretty cumbersome though. Love to hear about other people’s experiences if you would care to share. Cheers Geoff

• ya or na???
  by tuffcookie

  Ok everyone, / Recently I got into a debate with a friend over my glasses. I detest them and long for the days when i could wear contacts….

  Ok everyone, / Recently I got into a debate with a friend over my glasses. I detest them and long for the days when i could wear contacts. Sadly i can no longer wear contacts and am stuck with my glasses, since i’m blinder than a bat without them. So here’s what i’d like. I say i look better without my glasses, friends say i look better with… so which do you think i look better in. Glasses or no glasses. The hat is an added bonus.. its my daughters lol. I was goofing around and plopped it on my head… i have a thing for hats this time of the year lol Not taken by me obviously / Hope to be back at snapping away soon.. going through serious withdrawals lol / / /

• Glass Blowing
  by Pilgrim

  Over the weekend I have done the glass blowing course I had mentioned...

  Over the weekend I have done the glass blowing course I had mentioned. The weekend was completely captivating. Our hands were literally held by another’s as we manipulated molten glass and transformed it into glorious (at least in my eyes) objects. The glass was entrancing as it moved from running to sticky to solid in a matter of just a few seconds. It could be both generously transformed and unforgiving. In the process of this you enter a moment when you are focused completely on the object. But it is a focus which has to take in two or three other people because you are always working with others. They are keeping you from being burned. Are helping, holding and guiding. I don’t think I have done anything else that is quite as completely captivating while thoroughly sharing. I look forward to my next time out (and will post pictures of my work when it has cooled). Me Under Tuition / A Classmate in the Zone / Before the Fire /

• exhibition win!!
  by Anthony Mancuso

  A very big thank you to all that voted for my image “glass temple” which won the Melbourne and Victoria Group Challenge – win an exhibit…

  A very big thank you to all that voted for my image “glass temple” which won the Melbourne and Victoria Group Challenge – win an exhibition at the Brunswick Street Gallery. I’m very excited to be a part of a wonderful group and to take part in another exhibition at the gallery. Again, a very big thank you to everyone involved. Anthony.

• Exciting News!!
  by Macky

  The Redbubble Thursday Release Notes made me…

  The Redbubble Thursday Release Notes made me ‘fall off my chair’ this morning. Too amazing why the Gaia The Living Planet publication had to be opened on my photograph, a proud and humbling moment for me indeed. To the the selection judges, thank you and to my all my friends and watchers, I thank you all for your support and friendship. Kind regards Macky

• The Power of the Group
  by linaji

  True Story: Once a very famous glass blower (who before glass techniques are as they are today rather so out of this universe!) held a…

  True Story: Once a very famous glass blower (who before glass techniques are as they are today rather so out of this universe!) held a big class. He was very famous and his style was unsurpassed back then. His class consisted of about 100 people, his students for the weekend came from all over the world, all eager to learn something. After two intense days of showing them all the details of his work he held a goodbye seminar going over his teachings and told the class if they ever had any questions as to what they learned here he would accept their calls and he would help them with what ever it was they did not remember. One student raised their hand to ask a question.., rather embarrassed but determined to ask. / “Excuse me, sir, I have a question…” / “Please” he said, “Well you have had us for 2 days now… showing us all your original ideas to your work…. aren’t you afraid that we will steal your ideas and copy what you do?” He smiled and said,,,,, Well I would, if I thought what I shared with you was the last idea I would ever have” ..............!! ......And so it goes, if we trust the ‘infinite nature’ of our being we can allow everyone in. We never have to worry who has the limelight or no… Our turn is always here, first in our hearts and minds about our work… / I am learning this here at RB with all of you. Sometimes I can feel other feelings besides ‘It’s all good in the hood’ as my neck of the woods might put it. But I am learning to trust everyday the power of co-creation. It is necessary for me like going to a yoga class. I love the energy… sometimes others can do more than I can, but…As my brother Paul who is a great yoga teacher says to me… / Just take your shoes off and look around with love and stick to your mat. Stay with ‘your’ expansion and all else will follow. So I am sometimes having this experience here that feeds me… yesterday was one of the first times I felt a group expanding force, everyone was doing their own thing and yet when someone posted it was as if we all did it together… / I am in complete appreciation of you all. / Linaji

• YAY feature
  by Dawnsky2

  I would like to thank the hosts of Stillness Speaks group for featuring ‘Still Glass’...

  I would like to thank the hosts of Stillness Speaks group for featuring ‘Still Glass’ thank you very much indeed Dawnsky2

• I am trying to relearn how to be me
  by Arletta

  I’ve just dranken a large glass of tea. Yes, dranken Yes, large .. yes glass. I used to drink large glasses of tea, “all the ti…

  I’ve just dranken a large glass of tea. Yes, dranken Yes, large .. yes glass. I used to drink large glasses of tea, “all the time”, and once they were drunk, they were dranken. This is because I also used to utilize the English language, oh so very often, and with great aplomb. Sadly, those days have fallen by the wayside; but, no more! I shall drink my large glasses of tea, and believe now that they are of great and healthful benefit to me. In prior years, I was told that this is simply not so, that once should cut down for this reason and that. Well, in prior years, before I did cut down and started drinking more water instead, I was a much healthier person. I used to walk everywhere and drink large glasses of tea. Something which is, again, fashionable. Well, maybe not the large glases; no, myriad small cups of tea should be made, in endless repetition, and sipped in a genteel manner. However, I shall make very large glasses of tea, only a few times a day, and suck them down in a very gentile, let’s use it all up now and quickly, manner. And, then, perhaps, I shall walk.

• My photo "Carved Wood and beveled glass" is Featured!!
  by stephaniek

  Thanks to the Host of “Public Art” group for Featuring my photo taken at my local AK. Smiley Library in Redlands, California. !http://...

  Thanks to the Host of “Public Art” group for Featuring my photo taken at my local AK. Smiley Library in Redlands, California.

• FFF-Featured (MkXXIII)
  by Dennis Gay IPA

  My thanks to the Hosts of the Extreme Sports Photography Group for featuring “*Sl…

  My thanks to the Hosts of the Extreme Sports Photography Group for featuring Sliding Over Glass . Thanks also to all who have supported this work. GB / Dennis

• FFF-Featured (MkXX) - times FIVE
  by Dennis Gay IPA

  It’s an avalanche of Featureds!!!!! Surf the Dark Tunnel...

  It’s an avalanche of Featureds!!!!! Surf the Dark Tunnel , Lone Surfer #1 , The Ripple Effect , Canoeing the Afternoon Swell and Pelican on Liquid Glass have ALL been featured in the New South Wales Photography Group . My utmost thanks to the Hosts and to all who have supported these works. GB / Dennis

• Thanks
  by Macky

  To the member who bought two cards of my Glasswing Butterfly, I thank you sincerely Kind regards Macky

  To the member who bought two cards of my Glasswing Butterfly, I thank you sincerely Kind regards Macky

• “Windows to mystery” featured in "#12 Great Feature's"
  by Gili Orr

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  I am very honored and grateful!

• Some wonderful sales!
  by Martie Venter

  Wow – I just logged on this morning to discover that I had sold a matted print of “Evening Light” !http://images-0.redbubble.com/img/a…

  Wow – I just logged on this morning to discover that I had sold a matted print of “Evening Light” My first print sale ever – thanks so much to the buyer, I would love to see it in the buyers’ booth when you receive it! I also sold a card of “Stained Glass Owl” yesterday: My heartfelt thanks to both these wonderful buyers – I truly appreciate your support for my work!

• To wear or not to wear.... that is the Question!
  by GerryMac

  Hi, All No I am not asking about what a Scotsman wears under his kilt!! :-) Just a quick question to see what peoples views are on…

  Hi, All No I am not asking about what a Scotsman wears under his kilt!! :-) Just a quick question to see what peoples views are on whether you should wear your glasses when looking through the view finder of an DSLR? I have just been recently given both!! So I not too sure if the combination works! I did manage to find a bit about it in the Canon handbook – they reckon either way as you can set/adjust the eyepiece lens to suit your vision with or without glasses….. Thanks Gerry

• 2 Features today :)
  by Jeannette Sheehy

  Don’t You Forget About Me in Beautiful Blur group and “T…

  Don’t You Forget About Me in Beautiful Blur group and The Glass is Always Greener in Textures and Materials group. Thanks so much to the hosts! Appreciate it a lot! :)

• Chess featured in Gold-Silver-Gems
  by Claire Farley

  I just love it when you find an imaged featured…especially for a second time.Makes a great start to the day. / Thanks to the hosts of th…

  I just love it when you find an imaged featured…especially for a second time.Makes a great start to the day. / Thanks to the hosts of this group for choosing my Chess and to all who have viewed or commented

• SSShhhhhhh.........Migraine Free :)))
  by Sharon Perrett

  GOOD MORNING It’s a beautiful day and I have finally shaken off my migraine, had a thought this morning I need to get my eyes tested, ...

  GOOD MORNING It’s a beautiful day and I have finally shaken off my migraine, had a thought this morning I need to get my eyes tested, when my car was torched my glasses were in the car, so I reverted back to using my older ones….. maybe that contributed to my migraine. Anyway I’m in work :( and auditors are due any moment, so I better go. / Have a great day fellow bubblers and catch you all later.

• The Master of abstract macros
  by Murray Swift

  I discovered an amazing gallery. buddyhatcote has a collection of excellent macro closeups of glass and light which he describes as being…

  I discovered an amazing gallery. buddyhatcote has a collection of excellent macro closeups of glass and light which he describes as being “created with controlled flair. Have a look here if you like abstracts you’ll love his work!

• Another Sale
  by Macky

  To the member who purchased a card of my Glasswing Butterfly a hearty thanks!! Kind regards Macky

  To the member who purchased a card of my Glasswing Butterfly a hearty thanks!! Kind regards Macky

• Two features in "Light In The Darkness" - I am very grateful and honored!!
  by Gili Orr

  “A Star is born… at sunset” / !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/backingcolor:black/product:greeting-card/view:preview/1534995-1-a…

  “A Star is born… at sunset” / “Stained glass waves” /

• Sales
  by Matt Sillence

  Thank u who ever u are that purchased a card name straight droplet.. Much appreciate it. !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/backin…

  Thank u who ever u are that purchased a card name straight droplet.. Much appreciate it. Also for the person who purchased a card named The Iron Bridge Thank you both for your support

• Happy Sunday
  by Pamela Jayne Smith

  What a really lovely surprise it was the day of two’s for me – firstly my “looking up” was featured in Berries, Fruits and seeds which th…

  What a really lovely surprise it was the day of two’s for me – firstly my “looking up” was featured in Berries, Fruits and seeds which thrilled me totally and such lovely comment from Vickie, it’s so nice to know that someone actually has picked it because they like what I have done – even though I had so much fun doing it ! THEN I saw that a new photo that I had just finished and uploaded “Litte Cousin Jack” had been featured in Childhood – woot woot – went I! Thank you to the lovely hosts for featuring him :)) THEN I came home last nigh (or 2am this morning) and needed to download the card for Chloe to take the camera with her today (although she now doesn’t need it – lost valuable chatting time with our houseguests there) and what do you know – SECOND in the Stained glass windows Challenge OMG, I was so amazed – I knew that it was doing ok and even said to Rob I won’t win so won’t get excited – ranking first was quite thrilling, but I am a realist!! Bradley’s photo is amazing and deserves it’s win (no this is not through gritted teeth I assure you) I am totally overawed that I received the amount of votes that I did and so glad that it is a photo that everyone likes – it is one of my faves so even more thrilling :))) THANK YOU FOR VOTING :)) Make that a day of extended smiles this is a really big grin – just received another feature Les Danseurs Chaboussant have been featured in the Dance group – oh what a day! My daughters will be so thrilled also :)) Thank you so much Di :)) I can’t stop smiling what is wrong with me ??? SO now I am all of a buzz and wooting everywhere :)) And now have to be normal for a while and do normal things like eat, wash up and have a happy Sunday… Have a great day everyone and thank you all for your continued support – I feel so enlightened since joining RB and having you all making lovely comments and wooting with me just adds to this pleasure of learning and enjoying this fabulous hobby :)))