Make a stamp you will want to reuse.

Decide what should become ink

A stamp is a single-colour impression of a shape. A bow might become a bold silhouette, a fine outline or a more textured mark. Decide what matters in the source drawing before converting it. A photographic highlight is not always a useful hole in a stamp, and a faint painted shadow may disappear in a simplified treatment.

In Stamp Studio, compare a silhouette treatment for a motif on transparency with an ink treatment for a dark drawing on a light background. Use the result that preserves the drawing’s recognisable features.

Understand the shape source

In a drawing brush, the shape is the repeated footprint and the grain contributes texture within it. A transparent stamp PNG is also useful as an ordinary image: place, recolour and arrange it in a design without first creating a brush.

In Procreate, the white-on-black PNG becomes your brush’s Shape Source. In Affinity, the transparent PNG creates an Intensity Brush from the opacity of the artwork. Choose the format for your app in Stamp Studio, then follow its import guide and test one impression before you build a whole design.

Protect the small spaces

Look at the stamp at the size you intend to use. The gap between ribbon tails, the opening in a letter and the space between petals should remain readable. A shape that looks clear when enlarged can fill in when used as a small accent.

If a gap disappears, simplify or open it in the source drawing, reduce the heaviness of the conversion or use the stamp at a larger size. Increasing export dimensions alone will not improve an unclear silhouette. Leave breathing room around the edges so rotations do not clip fine tips.

Use a stamp as part of a design

Try a single impression before making a dense repeat. If you build a brush in your drawing app, test one tap, a short stroke and a change of size. Decide whether rotation or scatter helps the design, rather than using every dynamic setting at once.

Keep the source and check the result

Save the original illustration, the prepared stamp PNG and any shape source as distinct files. A clear file name helps you find the intended version when building another set. If you plan to sell or share the finished resource, check that you have permission to create and distribute that type of derivative resource from the source artwork.

For a set of separate stamp images, Customer Download Builder can help package the finished files and instructions. Explain what the customer receives and how to import it. Do not leave them to infer the file type from a product photograph.