Rubber Stamp Effect Using GIMP
It has been a long time since I have posted a GIMP tutorial. So here is one more Which provide a Old rubber stamp effect in some very simple steps. So here we go.
| Start with a blank canvas with white background. Write some text which you want to work as your ’stamp’ Use some font which is bold. Also select the text color which will act as your ink color. |
 Stamp Text |
| Add a transparency layer above the text layer. Press Ctrl+L to invoke the layer dialog box, and add a layer using transparency option. Draw a selection around the text you have just written. |
 rectangular selection on the transparent layer |
| Goto edit stroke selection — use a line thickness around 5 to 6 px. |
 stamp text with rectangular boundary |
| Working on the same layer use the contiguous selection tool and click the rectangle to select that area only. |
 Selected outer border |
| Goto Filter — noise — pick. In its dialog box increase the randomize to around 25% and repeat to around 40. |
 outer boundry has be distorted |
| Now switch to the layer the stamp text (press ctrl+l and then click on the text layer), select the text using contiguous selection (with shift selected) click on all the alphabets of you stamp text. Alternatively you can use select by color tool also. |
 text selected |
| repeat the pick filter as above, but decrease the randomize to 10% and repeat to only 20. merge the layers if required. |
 finally Old stamp |
| Rotate the image if required. I have kept a white background, if you want to use this image to be superimposed on other pages etc.. make sure you work on two transparency layers for text and box, and then remove the the white background layer. |
 Final old stamp.. Stamped |
| Adding Vinay’s suggestion here, idea is to show that the stamp was pressed unevenly. To do that same, take the final image, select Gradient Fill tool, set the options: Opacity to around 50%, Mode to color erase, Gradient Foreground to Transparent, Shape to Linear. Then just click and drag the effect from one of the corners to other end (diagonally). This will cover the image with some white, giving some side of the ink to be faded. The effect looks like the ink is unevenly placed. |
 Stamp with uneven ink effect |
