StampSealMaker 2: Documentation

Use Export Image button at top bar of the app to save seal as image. The image format will be PNG, JPG or GIF which is supported by StampSealMaker app. You might decide to use the image in another app; insert into other documents, print it using third-party apps etc. All these are achievable outside of the StampSealMaker with using your exported seal image.

Use Export DocX button at top bar of the app to save seal as Docx file, which is Microsoft Document file. After saving, you may navigate yourself in your operating system to the exported Docx file and open it in your editor (by default – Microsoft Word). This is useful if you want to fine tune location of the seal using MS Word application, or make other changes in the document and then print it in the MS Word.

At the left panel bottom is located the Print the Seal options. You should click on the white sheet of paper where is cross located with your mouse to place the location of the seal on the standard A4 paper or as desired. On the right from the paper is located settings, where you can select actual paper size and fine tune location of the seal (the cross mark on the sheet preview will update accordingly when you edit this fields). To print the seal, press Print button on that options panel, or on the top bar of the app (both buttons do the same). You will be presented with print options dialogue, where you can select number of copies to print, printer source, page setup and other default printing options.

When you edit the seal properties and then press Generate button, you will see updated seal in the preview pane. Sometimes it is hard to see the details on the default white background. It is useful to change background to see the seal in a new way. To change to back color, press Background. You will be presented with Color choice dialogue, where you can select any color. This color will be applied to the background of the preview of the seal. Please note that this color is not saved in the image when you export it is not saved in Docx file when you save it, and will not print if you print the seal. This color is only for your preview of the seal!

This option is located at bottom of preview pane. The default value is near 50 mm. Most of the app settings by default is good fit for this size. You may change this value if you want depending on projects, the more pixels in size then bigger the seal will be, and better the quality, but also tiny lines will be, fonts and etc., so you will be need to edit other properties of the seal as well if you change the size in pixels. The more you practice with the software, the more you get better generating any stamp or seal.

You can change preview image size as you want through Zoom In/Out

In the shape you can choose from 6 predefined kinds of shapes, and edit properties. You can also click on the shape with mouse to change the shape size, which actually change the Radius field values, which you can tune by yourself. The canvas size in mm is just relative size, you can select size in mm, and then edit the radius field in the mm. This canvas size is not affect the real size of the seal which goes into image file when you export it. You can use Polyline tool to draw any shape you want, just left click to insert new points and right click to stop drawing. Use Generate button to see final preview of shape.

Here you can edit frame properties, which actually splits to 2 different kind of frames – Lined and Pictured.

Line Frame

With line frame you can edit outer line width (line1), inner line width (line2), and space between this two lines. Also, you can edit Color of line.

Picture Frame

With picture frame you also can edit line settings from previous Help section, but also in addition to that the Seal will have Pictured frame. You can use default picture (the triangle), or load an image from file using Browse button.

Band is an inner band in the seal, which include text and line. You can add any number of bands which you want using Add [+] button or remove current band using X button. The Edges is not editable as it depends from the shape of the seal. For example, the Circle shape have only one edge. The rectangle has 4 edges, so you can select unique band for each edge. In each band you can edit text, font, spaces of top of the band and bottom of the band. It is easier to just type in there some text and play with parameters, press “Generate” button to see how the seal looks with these changes. At the bottom of each band you can edit the head and foot yield and line thickness and line color.

Inserting Special Symbols

You can add special symbols on the text of the bands. Just click on [Ω] button to browse through and insert symbols.

This setting is edit the center contour line thickness, head yield and color.

This edits the text in the center of seal and all its properties – font, color, rotation etc.

You can place one or more images on the seal relatively to the center of seal. You may add more images using Add [+] button and remove current image using [X] button. To load current image from file press Browse button and select an image to load. You can change the position of image only using fields Position X and Position Y so you can’t move the image across the seal using your mouse. Fine-tune the location using this fields. You can also select the size of the image using percent or the specific size in pixels depending on the Autosize checkbox selected. The color button will make you image is one-colored. This is useful if you use shaped image and want to change all its color to some another. If you press this button, then the color is applied to image. Better, if you prepare your image outside of the StampSealMaker app in an image editor to make it properly shape and color.

You can also change the rotation of every images, their positions and intensity of colors from the image.

Below the properties at right pane you will see the Edit the Seal pane. This is not settings pane and it is not saved when you save the Project of the seal. Here you can add different effects to your seal, add smudge, or rotate the seal. The arrow section selects the direction of the strokes of filter. This is not the direction to which is the filter will draw. To change the drawing direction, edit the Vector fields, and please note that vector can be negative. This is advanced settings. Brush X and Brush Y specifies the brush location for the filter. The round button is second parameter for this. The 2 buttons – Smudge and Discrepancy selects the kind of the filter. The Color Negative buttons make inversion of the colors of the seal, and the Mirror makes the mirror image of the seal. Please note that when you press Generate button the all filters which you applied in this section will be reset. So, if you want to save the seal to image or docx or print it, make this before pressing Generate button here.