ArtiStamps Creators

Mikel Untzilla 211110-6

Silvia Dubois 211116-2

Silvia Dubois 211116-3

Vittore Baroni 211118-1

Vittore Baroni 211118-2

Vittore Baroni 211118-6

Ptrzia Tictac 211123-2

Henry Denander 211203-1

H.R. Fricker 211208-3

H.R. Fricker 211208-4

Valdor 211211-1

Antonia Mayol Castelló 211215-3

Antonia Mayol Castelló 211215-4

нет войне  commemorative stamp sheet in support of Ukrainians...

Thanks for sharing Thom!

Beautiful stamp sheet *!*

Sabela Baña 211222-3

Bill Whorrall 211226

Alexander Limarev 220104-1

I just LOVE this new creation of Adam Roussopolous!!

Alexander Limarev 220104-2

Zdenek Sima 220110-2

Zdnek Sima 220110-3

Giovanni and Renata Stradada 220111-2

Giovanni and Renata Stradada 220111-3

Theo Nelson 220112-3

Artistamps received of John M. Bennett of Luna Bisonte Props earlier this month.

Cascadia Artpost 220117-1

Ina Ripari 220120-1

Paola Toffolon 220120-1

How does the USPS make 'perfect' perfs? What I mean is, how do they make perfect crossings where a line of perfs crosses another and all the little holes are perfectly registered so that there are only perfect holes?

I'd wondered about getting a laser cutter/engraver and finding a way to guide it to make perfs... until I saw the price!

The self-adhesives are not perforation, just perf-shaped diecuts.

Some modern perforations are done with a machine which presses the sheet against a 'pimply' plate and grinds the holes away. In the old days the perforator used to do a whole row at once, in a comb shape  |_|_|_|_| then move on to do the next row, so all the corners were wholly whole holes.

How does one print a sheet of small images suitable for perforating starting from a single image?

I've tried using Corel PhotoPaint v9 which has various multiple printing templates built in such as 2x2 up to 4x4 but so far I've been unable to avoid crowding the image off the edge or corner of the array.

HELP please!

I use MS Word. It's  not really an image program, but I insert a table with the correct size boxes and then add images. One advantage is you can add words, such as 2¢.

You can use a variety of imaging software programs.  If you have Microsoft Paint, that's all you need to arrange images.  It's simple to use.  I render my photos with Photoshop, but it's easier to create the array with Paint.

Paola Toffolon 220120-3

Paola Toffolon 220120-4

Paola Toffolon 220120-5

Aligning images for making stamps

Hi Ficus Strangulensis! I know you use spreadsheets; you can set spreadsheet rows and columns to fixed sizes and then paste your images in the cells. The same thing works in a word processing program like Word or Google Docs if you insert a table and then set row height and column width to your desired stamp size. Good luck, looking forward to seeing your stamps.

Thanks Gwendolynium, Bradford, Heide Monster. I will try tables maybe in OpenOffice Writer or LibreOffice Writer, saving MS Word as my last choice just to indulge my tightwadded nature.

Meral Agar 220120-4

Antonia Mayol Castelló 220128-1

Roberto Formigoni 220128-2

Gwendolynium 220201