How to stamp a pattern when pattern stamp wont do
August 8, 2010 7:56 AM Subscribe
Need to 'stamp' an image onto another image multiple times in Photoshop (or another free image editing tool).
I have a map and I want to stamp various symbols on to the map, each symbol is used multiple times. The symbols are actually better described as icons - I need some pattern/brush hybrid. Define brush has the stamping part fine but loses all the colour, define pattern keeps all the colour and detail but loses the ability to 'stamp' it on to the image.
Unless there's some hidden setting somewhere pattern stamp isn't it (but it so should be!) it doesn't stamp the whole of the pattern aligned with the center of the brush, its more like it has filled the layer with the pattern and stamping simply 'reveals' whatever bit of pattern is at that spot.
Duplicating layers and moving the symbols around for each version is too time consuming and combersome - someone must have created a solution to this problem but all my googling is getting me the same pattern stamp tutorials that aren't helping
I have a map and I want to stamp various symbols on to the map, each symbol is used multiple times. The symbols are actually better described as icons - I need some pattern/brush hybrid. Define brush has the stamping part fine but loses all the colour, define pattern keeps all the colour and detail but loses the ability to 'stamp' it on to the image.
Unless there's some hidden setting somewhere pattern stamp isn't it (but it so should be!) it doesn't stamp the whole of the pattern aligned with the center of the brush, its more like it has filled the layer with the pattern and stamping simply 'reveals' whatever bit of pattern is at that spot.
Duplicating layers and moving the symbols around for each version is too time consuming and combersome - someone must have created a solution to this problem but all my googling is getting me the same pattern stamp tutorials that aren't helping
do you want to keep the stamps on one layer and the map on the other?...grumblebee has it right...the keyboard shortcuts are your friend here. command-C to copy your stamp, command-V to place it, then move it where you want it. every time you hit command-V it makes a new, annoying, layer, right? Command-E is your friend here...it merges the layer with the one below it, leaving you with just one map layer and one stamp layer, or multiple stamp layers for each kind of stamp...hopefully that will speed this up for you...
posted by sexyrobot at 10:28 AM on August 8, 2010
posted by sexyrobot at 10:28 AM on August 8, 2010
Response by poster: I know my keyboard shortcuts but they're still a lot more time consuming than just clicking where I want the symbol to appear.
posted by missmagenta at 10:55 AM on August 8, 2010
posted by missmagenta at 10:55 AM on August 8, 2010
hmmm...opened up PS to see and googled...i seem to recall that you could paste at cursor, but i seem to be wrong, but maybe this will help: use the marquee tool to make a small box (any size), then command-V...it will paste right there (still more annoying than just clicking, i know)...then turn off any layers you don't want the stamps attached to (map, background, another stamp layer, etc) by clicking the eye next to them in the layers palette, then Merge Visible (Shift-Command-E), then turn the map back on...stamps on one layer, map on another...better?
posted by sexyrobot at 11:22 AM on August 8, 2010
posted by sexyrobot at 11:22 AM on August 8, 2010
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Not with keyboard shortcuts.
In PH, use the selection tool and make sure the Auto-Select option (toolbar at the top) is checked. This allows you to select layers by clicking on them in the main document window (you don't have to mess with the Layers palette).
Now just hold down the Option key (PC: Alt key) and drag the stamp layer. This will copy it and simultaneously move it to a new position. Repeat as many times as is necessary.
posted by grumblebee at 9:19 AM on August 8, 2010