Hey, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create the look of a rubber stamp.
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Create a new document by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + N or go to File and New.
Make its Width 1920 pixels, its Height 1080 pixels, and its resolution 72 pixels per inch.
The Color Mode is RGB and 8 bits per channel.
If the background isn't black, click it and pick black.
Then, click "Create".
To zoom into your document, press Ctrl or Cmd and the plus key on your keyboard
Ctrl or Cmd + 0 to fill the canvas.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and check your foreground and background colors.
If they aren't black and white respectively, press "D" on your keyboard.
Invert the colors by pressing "x" or by clicking this icon so white is our foreground color.
Open the Type Picker and pick any font you like.
I'm picking "Versa".
If you'd like to use it as well, I provided its link in my video's description or project files.
I'll make its size 450 points, but feel free to adjust this number based on the font you
choose and the number of characters in your text.
I'll make the aliasing Smooth and center alignment.
Click on your document and type out your text.
If you're typing two or more lines of text and want to adjust the line spacing known
as "leading" and/or character spacing known as "tracking", drag your cursor over your
text and click the character panel icon or go to Window and Character.
Place your cursor over the Leading icon which changes your cursor to a "scrubby slider".
Drag it to the left or right to decrease or increase the space between the lines of text.
To adjust the spacing between all your characters, place your cursor over the "Tracking" icon
and drag it to the left or right.
Close the Character panel and press Enter or Return or click the checkmark at the top.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
Open your Rectangle Tool and choose "Shape".
Click the box next to Fill and click the "No Fill" symbol.
This makes the inside of the shape empty.
Click the box next to Stroke and click white.
I'll make the stroke's width 30 pixels, however, feel free to adjust this amount.
Open the "Stroke" options and choose the solid line.
Open the Align options and click the bottom icon which aligns the stroke along the outside edges of the path.
Open the "Corners" option.
I'll click this icon which creates rounded corners, but again, feel free to choose any of them.
Drag the tool over your text.
To hide the path, press the Escape key twice.
To center your text and the surrounding frame,
Shift-click your text to make it active as well and open your Move Tool.
Press Ctrl or Cmd +A to select your document and click the "Align Horizontal Centers" icon
and the "Align Vertical Centers" icon.
Then, deselect it.
We'll convert our visible image into a Smart Object so we can modify it non-destructively.
To do this, Shift-click the background to make it active as well and click the icon at the upper right.
Click "Convert to Smart Object".
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the Brush Strokes folder and click "Spatter".
Make the Spray Radius 20 and the Smoothness 8.
We'll make a new layer below the active layer by Ctrl or Cmd-clicking the New Layer icon.
We'll fill it with black and since the background color is black, press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete.
Hide the Spatter filter and open your Channels panel.
If you don't see it, go to Window and Channels.
Ctrl or Cmd-click the thumbnail of any of the channels to select its shape.
Open back the Layers panel and make the Spatter filter visible again.
Make the top layer active and click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection.
The black area of the layer mask is hiding the ragged edges of the splatter layer that extends beyond layer mask.
It doesn't hide the ragged edges inside the white of the layer mask.
Remember, with layer masks, white reveals and black conceals.
Next, we'll add a grungy texture to our stamp.
Make a new layer and open your Brush Tool.
Invert the colors so black is our foreground color.
After you install the set of brushes I provided, open the Brush Picker,
and scroll to the bottom of the list.
Open the "NINETEEN EIGHTY SEVEN DESIGN - GRUNGE 2012" folder.
Click the "DSC_1561.NEF" brush, which is 1500 pixels in size.
Click your brush over various areas.
If you need more room, zoom out by pressing Ctrl or Cmd and the minus key on your keyboard.
Open your Move Tool and zoom back in.
We'll place all the layers into a folder by Shift-clicking the background to make it active
as well and pressing Ctrl or Cmd + G. Open the Channels panel and Ctrl or Cmd-click any
of the thumbnails to select its shape.
Open back the Layers panel and make a new layer.
Hide the folder.
We'll fill the selection with any color for now.
I'll fill it with the background color by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Delete.
Then, deselect it.
If you want to use this image for the background, I provided its link as well.
Feel free to any background you like.
Open the stamp document and drag it onto the tab of the background.
Without releasing your mouse or pen, drag it down and release.
We'll change the stamp's color by clicking the Adjustment Layer icon and clicking "Solid Color".
Pick any color you like.
We'll restrict the color to just inside our stamp by making the color into a clipping mask.
To do this, hover your cursor between the adjustment layer and the stamp.
When your cursor changes to this icon, click it.
Another way to clip it is to go to Layer and "Create Clipping Mask".
Make the stamp active and change its Blend Mode to Multiply.
Next, we'll make our stamp look well-worn by bleeding the paper through it.
To do this, double-click an empty area of the layer to open its Layer Style window.
We'll use the Blend If feature to achieve this effect.
Basically, Blend If uses the luminosity of layers to blend them together.
"This Layer" represents our active layer which in this case is the stamp itself.
The "Underlaying Layer" represents the layers under the stamp, which is our paper base.
By dragging the slider of the Underlying Layer to the left, it causes the paper base to show
through the stamp, as if it's punching holes through it.
We can smooth out the blending and create more of a transition between the two layers
by placing our cursor in the middle of the triangle slider and pressing Alt or Option as we click it.
This causes the slider to split in half.
Now, drag each half to separate them even more.
Then, click OK.
Next, we'll resize our stamp by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T to open our Transform Tool.
Go to a corner and press Alt or Option as we drag it in.
To rotate it, when you see this curved, double arrow, rotate it to an angle you like.
Drag it into position and press Enter or Return.
Unlock the background and Shift-click the adjustment layer to make all the layers active.
Then, place them into a folder.
Make a new layer and open your Gradient Tool.
Open your Gradient presets and click the black to transparent thumbnail.
Make sure the Linear gradient icon is active.
Place your cursor approximately here and press and hold the Shift key as you drag the tool
down approximately to the middle.
Pressing Shift kept our cursor perfectly vertical.
Repeat this at the bottom.
Shift-click the folder layer to make it active as well and convert them into one Smart Object.
Go to Filter, Blur Gallery, and Tilt-Shift.
Tilt-Shift gives our image the effect of being photographed with a low depth-of-field.
In other words, it blurs the top and/or bottom while leaving the rest sharp and in focus.
I did an in-depth tutorial on Tilt-Shift, so if you'd like to watch it, I provided its link in my video's description.
If you don't see the Tilt-Shift's on-screen controls, press Ctrl of Cmd + H.
In the middle, there's a center pin widget that you can rotate to increase or decrease the blur.
The area between the center pin and the solid lines are protected from being blurred.
If we drag the solid lines away from the center point, there will be more of your image in focus.
The areas between the solid lines and dashed lines are the transition areas.
The blur grows progressively from the solid lines toward the dashed ones, where it reaches its full strength.
The areas outside the dashed lines are 100% blurred.
Next, we'll adjust the perspective of our entire image.
Zoom out and open your Transform tool.
If you see this message, it's just letting us know that the smart filters will be temporarily
turned off while we use the Transform Tool.
Just click OK.
Go to a bottom corner and press and hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift on Windows
or Cmd + Option + Shift on a Mac as you drag it out to a perspective you like.
Then, press Enter or Return.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!