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Tae-Rai — Tutorial: Animated Stamps!

Published: 2012-08-10 22:16:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 1076; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 17
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Description After a few people have asked me how I make my stamps, here is an answer! Working knowledge of GIMP is needed but apart from that, it's pretty easy! It's my first tutorial so if anything is unclear or confusing, let me know so I know how to go better!

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See the stamp I made here:
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Sotkettu [2012-08-12 07:13:07 +0000 UTC]

This is only a tutorial for animating images with Gimp but it is not a stamp tutorial. Your finished stamp has no border and a stamp border makes a stamp of deviantART. Other (animated) little squares are not real stamps but still some of the stamp groups accept them for some reason. For example #stamp-kingdom does not accept 'stamps' like this. Here is one good tutorial about stamp making:
[link]
[link]

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Tae-Rai In reply to Sotkettu [2012-08-12 07:38:19 +0000 UTC]

I still believe it to be a stamp, though I do admit I like them better with borders. I have not discovered how to keep the border and the animation and those tutorials don't tell me how to either.

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Sotkettu In reply to Tae-Rai [2012-08-12 10:01:25 +0000 UTC]

I have made animated stamps with Gimp. Every animation frame just has the border. But I admit that sometimes it is difficult to animate with Gimp and I have deleted some of my stamps that had serious problems with the animation (one stamp for example had some frames with border transparency and some frames without it). There is plenty of different webpages about how to animate with Gimp; I don't know which one is the best for stamps.
Maybe these will also help:
Here is one stamp tutorial for Gimp (not animated):
[link]
Here is one for animated stamp (it has a strange and German version of Gimp but the eplanation is in English):
[link]

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Tae-Rai In reply to Sotkettu [2012-08-12 11:00:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, will look into it!

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SizzleLizzle [2012-08-10 23:25:42 +0000 UTC]

This is so helpful! I've been getting my friend who has photoshop to make my animations for me! I had no idea you could do it with GIMP! Thanks so much!
Well... which layers do we lower the opacity to 50%?

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Tae-Rai In reply to SizzleLizzle [2012-08-11 07:09:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. It's the very first after you rearrange them. If you see the previous layer start to come through, you've done it right.

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SizzleLizzle In reply to Tae-Rai [2012-08-11 20:14:23 +0000 UTC]

Ah. I ended up just not doing that. It turned out alright

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Tae-Rai In reply to SizzleLizzle [2012-08-11 22:28:59 +0000 UTC]

It's not necessary, but it just helps

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SizzleLizzle In reply to Tae-Rai [2012-08-11 23:57:09 +0000 UTC]

Like for a fade in-fade out kind of deal?

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Tae-Rai In reply to SizzleLizzle [2012-08-11 23:58:08 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, exactly.

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SizzleLizzle In reply to Tae-Rai [2012-08-12 00:02:02 +0000 UTC]

Okay. Thanks again

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