Tristan Miller wrote:
Greetings.
What would be the best way of simulating the impression made by an old inked rubber stamp? Such stamps often have uneven ink distribution and the edges are often eroded. For example, check out the postmark on the upper right corner of this stamp: http://www.sillektiki.com/images/2491.jpg. This sort of style is commonly seen in grunge fonts.
So, given a clean vector representation of such an image, such as http://files.nothingisreal.com/tmp/postmark.svg, how can I make it look nice and grungy like a real postmark?
Regards, Tristan
Nicu has a tutorial for this exact effect: http://howto.nicubunu.ro/rubber_stamp_inkscape/
The end part of this tutorial also shows how to use "grunge brushes" in inkscape... http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/shattered-smashed-text-tutorial/
cheers,
ryanlerch