Photograph into a postage stamp?

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Rebecca_Flanders
Oct 19, 2008
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Hello,

I have Photoshop CS3 for Mac and I am trying to change a photo into a postage stamp with the scalloped edges a postage stamp has – I did a few tutorials online that did not work. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks much,

Rebecca

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Neil_Keller
Oct 19, 2008
Rebecca,

Do you want to create stamps you can really use as postage? Or is this just a design component?

For the former, go to <http://photo.stamps.com/Store/?source=si10985886>

For the latter, scan a real postage stamp and replace its graphic content with your design.

As a point of information, those are perforations (if there are round holes with paper removed) or serrations (if there are just slits with no paper removed), not "scalloped edges".

Neil
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Phosphor
Oct 19, 2008
There are a bunch of ways to emulate the look of a postage stamp.

Here’s one:
< http://laughingliondesign.net/2007/09/25/photoshop-tutorial- create-a-postage-stamp-with-your-artwork/>

Here’s another:
<http://pshero.com/archives/us-postage-stamp>

I didn’t search for very long, but personally I’d be inclined to find and use a vector-based custom shape to create the mask/outline.
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Buko
Oct 19, 2008
I’d just scan a stamp.
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Phosphor
Oct 19, 2008
Come to think of it: Do stamps even come with the old-style scalloped die cuts for the edges anymore?

All the ones I’ve seen lately have wavy edges which mate up to eachother…meaning there are no longer those little holes. And they’re affixed to a non-stick backing sheet.

< http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1rJPF2SQqBb4fb4nm2 OoncBvCLGVz0>
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Buko
Oct 19, 2008
I’d scan an old stamp
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Allen_Wicks
Oct 19, 2008
Probably with the next version Adobe, all by themselves with no laws debated/passed, will make using stamp scans impossible in the app. Just like they did with money.
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Phosphor
Oct 19, 2008
That’s one of several good reasons for keeping older versions running.

All this time later, and after megaforumloads of people discussing and complaining about the anticounterfeiting measures, I still have no problem scanning currency.

So, ummm…nyah, nyah, na-na, nyah!

🙂
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Buko
Oct 19, 2008
Probably with the next version Adobe, all by themselves with no laws debated/passed, will make using stamp scans impossible in the app.

and how will all of the stamp auctions make stamp Auction catalogs?

I don’t think so Allen.
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Welles_Goodrich
Oct 19, 2008
Stamps with holes are/were lick-to-stick. I don’t know if they are even making them except in rolls any more. The wavy edge variety are always the no-lick-self-stickers.
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Ram
Oct 20, 2008
Stamps with holes are/were lick-to-stick.

How many calories per lick?
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John MacLean
Oct 20, 2008
and how will all of the stamp auctions make stamp Auction catalogs?

you can always take macro shots
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Mike_Ornellas
Oct 20, 2008
How many calories per lick?

I think it’s about two or three.

Yes they still make the licky kind. They are the limited edition style.
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R_Aviles
Oct 20, 2008
How many calories per lick?

None if you don’t swallow: lick-spit-stick
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Ram
Oct 21, 2008
🙂

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