Stamp Designer

Stamp Designer makes vintage-style postage stamps. You set the size, perforated edges, paper and ink colors, then layer text, images and postmarks on top. You can design a single stamp or a sheet of up to six, and export a PNG.

Open it from the Pixel Studio home page, or go to pixelstudio.oddomens.com/stamp-designer/.

The workspace

• Left panel: four tabs, Stamp, Style, Cell and Templates, with Export PNG, Save Project and Load at the bottom.
• Center: the stamp. The label below it shows the layout and the sheet size in pixels.
• Right panel: Add Elements, Layers, and the properties of whatever you select.

A new stamp is 340 × 420 pixels on cream paper.

Stamp tab

Layout

Choose how many stamps are on the sheet: 1×1, 1×2, 1×3, 2×1, 2×2 or 2×3 (columns × rows). Each stamp on a sheet is a cell.

• Perforation Size: 2–16 px. The size of the holes along the edges.
• Perforation Spacing: 2–16 px. The gap between holes.

Size

Width (160–500 px) and Height (160–700 px) of each stamp.

Colours

Click one of eight palettes to set the paper, ink and tint at once: Vintage Espresso, Retro Airmail, Midnight Silver, Botanical Forest, Royal Gold, Mint Vintage, Sepia Nostalgia or Nordic Blue. Or set them yourself:

• Paper / Background
• Ink / Border
• Colour tint, with Tint opacity (0–100%), which washes the stamp with a color.

Postage & Country Helper

Click Add Postage Helpers to add a country name and a postage value in the corners. Then:

Control	What it does
Preset Country	USA, Japan, Nippon, UK, China, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, India or Brazil.
Preset Postage	Five typical postage values for that country, in its currency.
Custom Country / Custom Postage	Type your own text.
Location	Moves the country or postage to Top-Left, Top-Right, Bottom-Left or Bottom-Right.
Swap Corners	Swaps the country and postage positions.

Picking a colour palette also recolors the country and postage text to match the ink.

Style tab

• Paper Texture: None, Aged, Linen, Laid or Matte, with Opacity.
• Inner Frame: None, Thin or Double. Draws a border inside the perforated edge in the ink color.

Cell tab

Use this tab for background images and multi-stamp sheets.

• Active Cell: on a sheet, click a cell's number to choose which stamp you're editing. You can also click a stamp on the canvas.
• Background Mode:
  • Shared: one image spans the whole sheet behind every stamp. Click Upload Shared Image.
  • Per Cell: each stamp has its own image. Click Upload Cell Image.
• For either kind of image, set Fit (Cover, Contain or Stretch) and Opacity, or click Remove to take it off.

On a sheet with more than one stamp, you also get:

• Sync Design Across Cells: on by default. Changes to elements and cell background images apply to every stamp on the sheet. Turn it off to design each stamp separately.
• Apply Active Cell to All Stamps: copies the active stamp's elements and background image to every stamp.

Templates tab

Twelve starter templates, each with a preview: Vintage 1920s, Modern Airmail, Classic Oval, Soviet Space Program, Gothic Imperforate, Botanical Garden, Royal Gold, Oceanic Expedition, Cosmic Space, Wild Animals, National Parks and Vintage Motors.

Clicking a template sets the colors, texture and frame, and replaces the elements on your stamps. Elements are scaled to fit your current stamp size. Press Cmd+Z or Ctrl+Z to undo.

Add elements

In Add Elements on the right:

Button	Adds
Text	A text layer reading "STAMP TEXT".
Image	An image you pick, sized to fill the stamp.
Postmark	A circular cancellation mark.

Select and arrange

• Click an element to select it. Shift-click to select more than one.
• Drag to move. Use the square handle to resize and the round handle to rotate.
• Click an empty spot to deselect.

Layers lists the elements on the active stamp. Click one to select it, or click its × to delete it.

With several elements selected, you can Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, Align Top or Align Bottom, or Delete Layers.

Layer Properties

For any selected element:

Control	Options
Blend Mode	Normal, Multiply (Ink), Overlay, Screen, Darken or Color Burn. Multiply makes elements look printed into the paper.
Opacity	0–100%.
Rotation	-180° to 180°.
X, Y, W, H	Exact position and size.
Layer Order	↑ Forward, ↓ Back, ⇈ Front or ⇊ Behind.
Delete Layer	Removes it.

For images, Image Filter adds Grayscale, Vintage Sepia or Halftone Dots.

For postmarks, Postmark settings has the style (None, Circle, Wavy, Oval, First Day, Lines, Airmail, Double or Roller), the Ink colour and the Text around the mark.

For text, Text settings has:

Control	Options
Text box	The text.
Font	Georgia, Times New Roman, Impact, Courier New, Century Gothic, Palatino, Garamond, Rockwell, Verdana or Bodoni/Didot. These use fonts installed on your computer, so they can look different on different devices.
Bold, Italic	Toggles.
Alignment	Left, center, right or justified.
Font Size	8–200 px.
Letter Spacing	0–24.
Text colour	Any color.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Z	Undo
Cmd+Shift+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z	Redo
Delete or Backspace	Delete the selected elements

Export and save

• Export PNG downloads stamp.png at twice the sheet size. A single 340 × 420 stamp exports at 680 × 840 pixels. Areas outside the perforated edge are transparent.
• Save Project downloads stamp-forge-project.json with your whole design, including any images you added.
• Load opens a saved project file.

Stamp Designer doesn't save automatically. Reloading the page starts a new stamp, so save a project file to keep your work.