This tutorial shows you ‘the easiest way’ to create a stamp image with Photoshop. There is also a Free Photoshop action by PanosFX with the similar effect.
Download source file – Photoshop CS3
1. Create a new 260 x 190 px document with white background, create a new layer and hit the ‘Add a Layer Mask’
2. Hit the ‘U’ key to select the Rectangle Tool, select Paths in the Options Bar
and draw a box like the image below.
3. Hit the ‘B’ key to select the Brush Tool, hit the ‘F5′ key to open the Brushes Palette. Adjust the settings for your image size – in our case diameter – 16px and spacing – 135% should be OK.
4. Make sure that foreground color is black
and select the Paths palette, hit the ‘Stroke path with Brush’, and ‘Load path as a selection’
Change the view to Layers tab. Deselect Layers Mask by clicking on Layer thumbnail.
5. If not already selected, set the foreground color white, select the Paint Bucket Tool and fill the selection. There is nothing to see at the moment as background color is also white.
6. Double click on Layer thumbnail to open Layer Style properties and apply Drop Shadow effect like the image below
Now we finally see our stamp
7. ‘Control + D’ to deselect selection, add new layer and place in stamp image. That’s it!
Enjoy!
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Thanks, beautiful effect and nice tutorial
Easy as but an even easier option would be for a brush or mask plugin that would do it for you….
Fun. Thanks!
bonjour, j’ai essayé de mettre en application mais je ne peux pas choisir l’espacement comme indiqué dans la rubrique n°3 ci-dessus , je n’ai pas non plus dans la palette calque – layer 1 et background – qui apparaissent : j’ai la version CS 2
merci
i block at the paths pallette i cant see the picture there and i the stroke path cant be click
muchas gracias, al principio me costó enterarme de la explicación.. que podría ser un poco mejor, per obueno, saludos!
oui c effectif et merci de vous aide
Thank you. Great post
very smart way to use the photoshop tools