How Do You Make A Rubber Stamp Effect With Paint.Netuse Paint.NET To Produce Distressed Grunge Textures?
This little tutorial will show you how to produce a rubber stamp like graphic. Rubber stamps don’t produce perfect prints when applied to paper and the technique we use to replicate the imperfect impression can also be used to produce grunge style effects where text and images are manipulated to look distressed. For this tutorial I’m using Paint.NET, but the same effect can be produced in other pixel-based image editors, such as GIMP. I actually got the idea for this tutorial yesterday after producing a banner for Start a New Hobby Week, so you can see an example of this technique in action. Note: If you’re a GIMP user, this same technique is covered in
