Stained Glass Software

Stained Glass Software

by Tim
(North Carolina)

I want to get a stained glass software package, but don't know which one. Glass Eye seems to be a good product but it is expensive and I don't know if the software has been updated.

What do you recommend.

Answer

Hi Tim,

I just went to the Dragonfly software site. Here is what they say about their newest version. "The current shipping version of Glass Eye 2000 is 3.1, released on January 15, 2007". That makes the latest version is one year old.

I know a lot of people that use Glass Eye. I have never heard anyone that didn't like it. Why don't you download the trial version and try it out. You get to try it for 30 days before you have to make the decision if you want to buy it. And...you get to keep the resizing software whether you buy or not.

Another software available is Pattern Wizard and Rapid Resizer. They are considerably cheaper than Glass Eye, but , as I understand, Pattern Wizard isn't as complex as Glass Eye. I use Rapid Resizer and find it exceptionally easy to use. I've had it for a long time and use it frequently. Both Wizard and Resizer have a decent free trial period. Pattern Wizard gives you 48 hours of use...that's actual use, not 2 days from the time you download it. Rapid Resizer gives you a 14 day (from the day you download it) free trial.

If I were you, I'd try both Glass Eye and Pattern Wizard and see which one meets your needs. They are both very good products and I would recommend either one.

Sue

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Jun 23, 2008

Pattern Wizard Trial Experience
by: Al In Georgia

I seen that Glass Eye Standard Edition software was twice the cost of Pattern Wizard, and even at that, I was told by Glass Eye that the free trial download was the Professional Edition (I could be wrong on this, but I thought I heard it was the Professional Plus Edition - at 5 times the cost). So I would not be able to tell what features I would be getting with the Standard Edition. I light of this; I download the trial version of Pattern Wizard. I was amazed what I was able to do with it. I could open one of my free stained glass .jpg files, and trace it. I was also able to figure out how to use most of the features, some of which were a trick to find, but in the end there was noting I wanted to do that I could not do. I even found a trick of emailing my tracing to myself which converted their file extension to a jpg file that I could store and access. At this point I can not think of what more Glass Eye could do that I might want, but that does not mean I know everything. My next thought is to contact DragonFly and see if they will let me download their Standard Edition as a trial to use what I would actually be willing to pay. If not, I could be happy with Pattern Wizard.

Jan 22, 2008

I purchased Glasseye software
by: Keith Robinson

Hello Tim, I have bought GlassEye software and can recommend it highly. I got the professional edition as I think it gives everything a non-professional would need. The next version up has features that only a commercial organisation would benefit from (in my opinion) I am a systems analyst by profession so was able to make a fairly qualified judgement. I wanted the abilty to use images as the basis for my designs. By superimposing a digital picture as the background when creating a cartoon and then using the software to 'draw over' it much is possible. I used it to copy the design from my Victoian Porch tiles. Mind you, when seeing the dog pattern that Sue created from a sketch of a dogs photo perhaps I should have saved my money! - still we cant all have natural talent!

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