Simulating rubber stamp impressions (postmarks, etc.)
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
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
Greetings.
In article <473D1514.9070807@...155...>, Ryan Lerch wrote:
What would be the best way of simulating the impression made by an old inked rubber stamp?
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/
Thanks for those. I found the second one gave much better results than the first, though the resulting file size is huge if one applies a complex brush too many times. Does Inkscape (or SVG) not allow one to define a named object once and then reuse it multiple times? It looks as if every time I pasted the object, Inkscape wrote a new copy of it to the file.
I also came across http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/181/en/ which, while it isn't specific to Inkscape, is general enough to adapt to it. It's similar to the method shown in the second tutorial you mention.
Regards, Tristan
Tristan Miller wrote:
Does Inkscape (or SVG) not allow one to define a named object once and then reuse it multiple times? It looks as if every time I pasted the object, Inkscape wrote a new copy of it to the file.
Use clones (Edit > Clone > Create Clone or Alt + D) for this.
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