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Rubber Stamp Effect

In this tutorial, we will create an effect that looks like a stamp created using those rubber ink stamps..

	Start a new document, large enough to place your stamp on. For this tutorial, I am using 250x150. Now, select RED as your foreground color, and your background color to BLACK Then use the type tool and type in your text. Use a bold font, I used Arial Black, size 50px.
	Now go to Layer » Rasterize » Type - this will convert the vector text to bmp. Now use the rectangular marquee tool and make a selection AROUND the text....
	Now go to Edit » Stroke Then you can deselect the selection by pressing CTRL+D
	Now apply this filter: Filter » Brush Stroke » Spatter. Spray Radius: 17 Smoothness: 5 Note: These settings can vary.. depending on how washed out you want the stamp to look
	Go to Select » Color range, then use the color picker to select the BLACK from your stamp.
	What we've just done is select ALL the black spots on the stamp so we can delete it from our stamp.. creating the stamp effect. So with the selection selected, hit DELETE .. you can hit delete several times to make sure its all deleted.

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Davion Aug/06/2010 00:37This is a very old tutorial and will not work in CS4. The "Splatter" effect will not work as it is just taking into account the layer, splatter can only be used with a "Flattened image" now. Instead go to Filter > Texture > Grain, play around with it until you are happy and then follow the rest of the steps, solved.

Karl Jul/30/2010 14:01Take the idea and change it up so it doesn't look cheap

jot Jun/09/2010 16:24I wonder

Jason Dill Jun/08/2010 02:43one word... STUPID

Ram anand May/21/2010 18:27Wow excellent it worked practically,I have used this and take printout on my building permission papers to build my house and that checking officer believed them that they are original and put signature and now we can create this type of fake documents many. Now i am planning to take the house which is beside our house in the same way. Now I can become milionare with this small effect great hahaha

twilight-saga-freak Apr/21/2010 01:04I Have CS4, It Didn't work. So the search continues :(

Tea Kettle Apr/05/2010 22:33About the Brush Strokes thing... Your image mode has to be RBG and 8-bit, otherwise you can't select the brush strokes tool.

evleyn Apr/04/2010 00:53thanks

Clipping Path Mar/16/2010 16:44hehe, if someone think to go illegal way to create a approve seat on the paper,this tuts will certainly help him/her ;) good work pal :-)

vinod kumar Feb/08/2010 21:02erfresdrrrfrf

santhosh Feb/01/2010 21:30thanks

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johnny Jan/25/2010 23:42i agree with random freerider guy and you suck guy. your tutorial is a lot of numbers and some dog dukey. nips.

Someone Dec/11/2009 13:56thanks for sharing but the end result looks cheap!

Dave Dec/07/2009 06:05Worked great for me - thank you been trying to get this effect right for ages

YouSuck Nov/23/2009 10:24Good luck with this piece of shit tutorial. The output looks like dog ass no matter how you do it.

Sammie Nov/06/2009 05:22Just because it's not mentioned here: after you deselect the marquee stroke, switch the black to the forground, and fill in with the paint bucket the background inside the square and outside the square. Then you can follow the next step of Filter>Brush Strokes>Splatter. Depending on the size of your text, you will need to mess around with the filter settings to get the desired effect.

Tim Oct/24/2009 02:07NB MAKE SURE YOUR IMAGE IS RGB. THE BRUSH STROKE FILTER DOESN'T WORK IN CMYK. DROVE ME MAD BEFORE I DISCOVERED THIS.

anon Oct/19/2009 03:10thanks Web4YOU, couldn't get this to work before.. it would only show the effect on the outer edges of my text, not the inner fillings(as Mihai noted), no matter what i adjusted the radius and smoothness to. Your instructions totally solved that though, thanks

JITENDER Oct/18/2009 16:44I LIKE THIS BUT WHN I TRY IT IN PHOTOSHOP CS3 ,,,BRUS STROK NOT WOK..... I USE..GRAPHIC PEN BRUS DTROK .... THANK THANK NOW I CAN CREAT STAM FOR MY WEBSIT EASILY ....THANKS

ishimaru Oct/02/2009 07:10You can totally do this in Illustrator CS3 if you need that grunge but still like it vectorized. Thanks for the tip dude.

Web4YOU Sep/10/2009 20:01Hi, Around a year ago I managed to use this, but I know that it took me some time to get my head around it. Today it took me again ~30 minutes to figure it out. Here is the way I did it (there might be easier ways): 1. Depending on what background you want please make your specific selection. I needed white background so I choose white as background and red as foreground. 2. Then in one layer (RGB8), I added the text as done above, then rasterized it, added the border just like above.Then I added the text and border to it as mentioned above. 3. Until now we have 1 layer and in that the text (stamp) and the border. Now we are going to add a white background to this layer. 4. Now here's my solution to it:. Select the Magic Wand Tool (keyboard shortcut W), and select the border and all the letters (you can make multiple selections by holding down the shift key). 5. Now that the border and the letters are selected go Filter -> Brush Stroke -> Spatter. You should already see the effect. Adjust accordingly. Hope it helps, S

Mihai Sep/09/2009 11:30Brush Stroke....Spatter not working, unless you have a background color. And if u have a background color it's not the same as in this photoshop. It has an action only on contour and not inside the fillings. Or the tutorial is not complete, or Photoshop is a shit!

Vero Sep/01/2009 04:56Was not able to select the Brush stroke option in Filters, either. Not available in version 10??

Ucuzza Aug/07/2009 02:48Your tutorial helped me a lot and it is very easy to follow. I have used "noise" brush and different fuzziness levels to get the desired effect for my auction site banners. Thanks a lot for spreading your knowledge.

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