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Animated Stamp Tutorial
Published: 2007-06-09 23:03:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 74815; Favourites: 2073; Downloads: 1353
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UPD2: Guys, I really am chuffed that so many people found this tutorial helpful. It came as a total surprise when DA gave me a Daily Deviation for it, and that it has accumulated 55K views. I am surprised and honoured.However, I think that this tut is now terribly outdated. Hardly anyone uses ImageReady anymore. In this day and age, you can make an animated GIF directly in CS5, online - even in Powerpoint, whatever rocks your boat. If I had time, I could make a CS5 stamp tutorial or something - however, there are some awesome tutorials for that already, so why reinvent the wheel?
I haven't got time to reply to all the comments I get for this deviation, or respond to all the faves - so comments are disabled for now, sorry!
Last but not the least: this tutorial is far from perfect. I don't make stamps anymore. I am a published manga artist, I draw manga and illustrations and do workshops (and have been doing so since 2004, would you believe!). I really am somewhat disappointed that this tutorial got noticed and recognised more than any work that I put my heart and soul into.
So thank you for your interest - and please check out other art in my DA gallery, or on my website www.irinarichards.com.
Thanks! Peace and love all around ^^
UPD: If you're having problems with Step 5, this screenshot might help you: [link]
Introducing my first ever tutorial - How to Make an Animated Stamp!
In just 10 simple steps, you'll be able to create wonderful stamps for everyone to see.
Please
if you found this tutorial helpful. Thank you!You can also send me links to your stamps, Iβd love to see what youβve created ^_^
Credits:
Stamp Template: [link] by #stamp-album
Font: Oh Snap [link] by ~ashzstock
Picture: Against My Will [link] by me
The actual stamp can be found here: [link]
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Comments: 597
Hello! I simply love your tutorial and i'm trying to make a stamp now! But i have a question to ask you! When i'm in the stamp slide 2, i'm about to click in select --> all , but for me appears "all layers"! Then i click it but when i go to "Edit" to select in "Copy", i can't do it cause i doesn't let me! ;_;
And i did everything exactly like you explained from the beginning in the tutorial! Could you correct me if i'm wrong? Thank you in advance! ;3
p.s: Sorry about my english! >_<
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well, did your "Stamp Slide 2" file have more than one layer?
If yes, merge them down to one layer, then it should let you copy it. Hope it helps!
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Strange... it has just one layer, "Layer 1", but i still can't copy it and it keeps saying "select --> all layers"!
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Another thing to do is, go back to Photoshop, open "Stamp Slide 2" there and Select All and Copy it there.
Then switch back to ImageReady, click on Frame 2 in your Animation and do Edit => Paste.
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I finally made it! ;O; I was doing something wrong with the layer, but then i could finally made it! Thank you so much for helping me, i'm a little slow with this things! loli
If you want to see my stamp go here dear! --> [link]
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what version of PS is this, I am using 7 and I could follow it all the way but on one step it didn't work the same as you have it...
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It is PS7 as well.
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hmm for some reason when I save it and upload it, it isn't animated.
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so this works for Photoshop CS2 also right? Or was this Photoshop CS2, i couldn't tell
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This was Photoshop 7, but it should work in PS CS2 too.
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This is a good tutorial on how to make a animated stamp. When I try to make a animated stamp on Paint Shop Pro 7, the colours always come out grainy due to the limitations in the number of colours that a GIF image can have.
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I had a similar problem - try to play around with the colour setting and dithering (you know, in the top right corner of Image Ready where you choose the format and properties).
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I doubt it if JASC Animation Shop 3 will do that.
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Thanks so much Irina!
I've made my first stamp ([link] ) using your great tutorial and I wanna say thank you
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you're welcome - glad it was useful and thanks for the credits
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A huge help! thanx!
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you're welcome!
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Weird...when I try to paste the second picture into the second frame, it changes both frame 1 and frame 2 to the second picture.
Example:
If my first picture in animation frame 1 was just a big "A", and then I open the second picture (which we'll assume is a big "B") and try to paste it into the new frame I made with the duplication button, both frame 1 AND frame 2 change to "B", instead of the first one staying as "A", and the second one becoming "B".
Is there any obvious, well-known reason that this should happen? Does anyone know what's wrong or how to fix it?
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Make sure the program creates a new layer for each frame. I. e. when you click "duplicate current frame" you should see a new frame in the Animation palette AND a new Layer in the Layers palette. Mine does it automatically I think.
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Oh, ok.
Thanks.
*Found the problem now*
Apparently, there's an option you have to check off so that the program automatically creates a new layer for each frame; I found it, and it seems to be working now.
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Ummm,what option is that?
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This was so long ago, I can't remember at this point.
Although, it doesn't matter now, really for me, so it's ok.
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sorry, but i have the same problem... Can you say me what's that option please?
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I can't remember--I'd have to find it again.
It's been forever since I made a stamp or anything.
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ah, that's good news!
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Yeah, it is.
At first, I was so afraid that for some weird, unexplained reason, this wasn't going to work for me. x.x
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well at least now it seems to work
send me a link to the finished stamp, I'd be interested to see what you've made!
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I planned to in a little while, when I put them both up.
*Has made two, and would have put them both up already, if I hadn't had to get off because of a really suddenly, random storm...o.o*
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I canΒ΄t understand how you move the slade 2 to slade 1..
I am trying.. but nothing lol
:/
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You can't move slide 2 to slide 1 - animation goes forwards, not backwards
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Thanks ((:
I finded..
Thanks for your tutorial!
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I can't see myself making stamps (more like icons for LJ and such) but thanks for illuminating that photoshop lets you make animations! I honestly did not know that.
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photoshop doesn't
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Ahh, I see! Well, if I do ever make flashy icons/avatars, I'll definitely use and fav your tutorial.
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you're welcome, hope it's useful!
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oh yes!! Thank you so much Irina.-)
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you're welcome, hope it's useful!
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This makes me want to try it 
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It's very easy and takes about 20 minutes once you get the hang of it. There's another animated stamp tutorial on DA (not mine) but mine's a "bluffer's" method
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I should really give it a try! I don't know the other tutorial, but this seems very helpful
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Ah, the wonders of Photoshop's animation techniques
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hehe, with cs4, last year at school I did an little animation 2d, hehe it was pretty cool. There's a lot of ways to animate in cs4, it all depend on what result we want 
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