Page Two
You should now have your butterfly in shiny gold on the upper layer and a blank transparent layer under the butterfly layer.
Be sure that you have sample merge selected and that the glass layer is active layer.
Note: by selecting the sample merge box you can select an area based on the butterfly area and with the glass area active your fills will go to the glass layer. When you expand and feather the little marching ants should be in the gold area (this will prevent those terrible white jaggy areas.
Select a few areas of the butterfly to fill with color, I try and keep my butterflies symetric.
Expand and feather the area using a selection of 1 pixel...
Select a pale yellow color and leave the style and texture setting alone.
Flood fill the area.
Apply bladepro stained glass preset to the area.
Click on selection none to deselect the areas.
Select a few more areas.
Change your foreground color to a nice shade of orange.
Flood fill the area.
Apply bladepro stained glass to the area.
Deselect the area.
Now we will change and use spectrum glass fills for some of the areas.
Open two spectrum glass images.
I chose a yellow swirl and an orange swirl.
Click on the styles foreground button and choose the 4 dots.
area.
A menu will pop up with lots of images.Move to the top of the selection bar and your image and the two spectrum fills will be shown.
Select one of the spectrum images.
Select several area to fill with the glass, and don't forget to do a selection, modify expand and a selection modify feather.
Click on the flood fill tool and fill with your glass sample.
Now I zoom the image and select all the remaining blank areas for glass.
Selection modify expand and selection modify feather.
Click on your styles button and when the popup menu appears chose a different spectrum glass image.
Flood fill with your new glass fill.
Your image is now complete.
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