Changing the Color of your Digital Stamps

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Want to do more with your Digital Stash? Re-Use your Digital Stamps with these easy steps.

Method One – Using your Styles in PS

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Place your Stamp Layer in your current project/layout. Make sure the Stamp layer is active/highlighted in your layer palette.

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Now Select the Layerstyles Icon.

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Select the Color Overlay option.

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The Default color is Red and it can be easily changed.

Select the Color Swatch and the Color Picker pops up.

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Change your color either by using the eyedropper tool or entering your own value. I selected White (FFFFFF).

Click OK and the change comes into effect. I have included a set of styles that can be used in PS and PSE to change your stamps colors in one easy step.

Download Color Overlay Styles

Finished Result:

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Method Two – Using Brushes

Open your Digital Stamp (PNG).

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Select Edit/Define Brush Preset from your Menu.

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Name your brush.

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Change your foreground color to White.

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Create a New Layer in your Current Project/Layout.

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Select your brush tool.

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Select the Brush you just saved.

Select the new Layer, make sure it is highlighted in the Layers Pallette and Stamp your brush onto the new layer.

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Finished Result:

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Method Three – Using Shortcuts

*NB You can only change from Black to White or White to Black with this method.

Place your Digital Stamp in your Current Layout or Project. Select the new Layer, make sure it is highlighted in the Layers Pallette. Now press CTRL+I to ‘invert’ the image.

Finished Result:

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Products Used:

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Comments

  1. Laramie says:

    This was great. I just got PSE and am a little lost. I am loving it but want to know more. This tutorial was great. Thank you also for the Color Overlay Styles.

  2. Lisa Schmidt says:

    I am trying to follow your directions to change the color my digistamps print in but my version of photoshop doesn’t have the same menus you are referencing. What version of photoshop are you running? mine is photoshop 6 Thanks so much, Lisa

  3. Mari Koegelenberg says:

    Hi Lisa…I am using PS CS in this tutorial.

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