#collecting stamps

[oldtvlover]

Hey guys,

so me again and a bit busy with the little stamps series, so to speak.

The station collects stamps for a barbeque grill and it’s best to say not to let Johnny take charge of trading it. The shock of all is priceless and Roy flees immediately. Ouch!

But in the end, all men melt away at a little baby! Aw.

[royal-stamps]

Collecting stamps

Collecting stamps involves acquiring and studying postage stamps designs, which are valued for their intricate designs and historical significance. Stamp designs often feature historical figures, landmarks, and artistic elements. Enthusiasts appreciate these designs for their beauty and the stories they tell about different eras and cultures.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[queeresthellhound]

Because polls get the most engagement I’m making a poll lol

(For the sake of this poll: a collector is anyone who *currently has* a collection of things either physically or digitally that they intentionally acquired which can be grouped together)

Please please please please pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me what you collect and optionally why!!!! (This is doubly true if your collection is related to a regulatory/“special” interest!!!!!!! That’s honestly the only reason I’m making this poll, I am begging youuuuuuuuuuu

Neurodivergent related tags are for reach as I know a lot of neurodiverse people are collectors. I do try my best not to clutter those tags, if anyone has an issue with it please tell me and I’ll remove them

[ocmontessoriacademy]

Official Presentation Roecy

Roecy Inc. has been synonymous with Worldwide Philately since 1982, in the from of single sets but most important with world wide collections and accumulations. Business and Stamp Collecting should inspire and be enjoyable.From small collections to giant rooms filled.

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[blistexenthusiast]

19th century wax seals

[oobbbear]

-Intrusive thoughts-

Close ups:

Scene from fic “Ghostlight” by Kittenixe (@ghostlightfic)

Please go read the fic it’s really good/sob, and play the game possibaly for more context

[sekaiichi-happy]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, 82 yen stamps

[chronicwitch96]

Late 00's-early '10s gifs, stamps and blinkies (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

[graphic--horde]

How do you make your stamps? :0

Disclaimer: this is an obscenely long explanation, with pictures. Efficiency is stupid

So, for the static ones, I make a 99x56 px file on ibis paint x. Other programs are probably available online but I don't use them.

After that, I either upload an image I want to make into a stamp, or I draw one.

Then, I find a frame I want to use. Ill upload them here but let it be known I stole all of these right from deviantart

Most of them are from Lil-Devil-Melii on deviantart. The rest i have no idea. They're not all 99x56px but you can crop the canvas it's fine

Make sure to erase the edges of the picture , so they're transparent. It's not as cute otherwise

Upload those frames over your image in whatever art program you're using and viola, stamp.

For moving ones, it's a lot harder. Mostly because I refuse to download Photoshop.

There are a couple ways to do this. Some are simple animations, like with flashing text and whatnot. For these, you download the individual animation frames from your art program. Make sure it's transparent.

Then, upload each frame to ezgif.com under the option "GIF maker." You can play around with how fast each frame goes and whatnot but in the end, it'll be a stamp with some rad text that moves. This is easy, and doesn't make me want to shit my pants and cry. If you're new, do this. This is fun. This is good. This does not kill me inside

I made that↓ stamp with this method :)

this next one is how we turn gifs into stamps. This one makes me sad. It involves math and sucks. But we gotta do it. For the vibe

First, grab your gif. I'm using this cow gif because it's awesome

Then, I resize it using ezgif. Literally everything for this will be using ezgif. I am a simple man

At this point you should decide what frame to use. I'm using this one because its the first one I clicked

Figured out what size the inside of the frame is. That's what I resize the gif to, so the edges can be transparent. The inside of this one is 93x50 px, so those are the dimensions I'm making the gif.

Figure it out by putting the frame into ibis paint and realizing the canvas to fit just the inside of the frame, then seeing what the dimensions are. But there could be easier ways

Woah it's so small now

Then, still on ezgif, I go to the "crop" option.

Make sureeee to upload the smaller gif

press the button that says "extend canvas size", and then put the "width" and "height" as the dimensions for your FRAME. This'll put a bit of a transparent border around the gif. For this frame, I did 99px and 56px.

The "left" and "top" boxes show how many pixels the cropping happens from the edges of the canvas. The formula for finding that is

(width of gif / 2) - (difference between gif width and frame width / 2) = left box

For me it's (93 / 2) - (6 / 2) = 43.5

Then you do the same.for the height, which for me ends up being 22 from the top

This is reallyyy touchy and annoying though

Here's my result , with no visible difference

Okay so THEN you go to the "overlay" option, under "effects." And upload your frame. If the cropping was done right, you shouldn't have to move the frame at all and can just download it

Here's my result:

if you don't care about transparency, you can resize your gif to be the same size as the frame, and then put the frame over it. But I'm a slut for transparency

Anyways. I'm sorry if anything was unclear, it's two am. And I hope this was helpful :) these really are fun to make once you get it down

also if anyone has an easier way to make stamps from gifs, please god tell me

[lupinus-bicolor]

portal stamp dump

[corviddrawsstuff]

hermit stamps… save me hermit stamps

[cheezitofthevalley]

word stamps

[Stamps with quotes]

hope this helps someone :)

[grickle14]

He-Man despised that Skeletor was the Master of the Stamp Collection.

[see-anemone]

some postage stamps i've collected over the years featuring fishies x

[blistexenthusiast]

19th century gilded wax seals