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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

open up your frame in photopea just by clicking and dragging it from your folder

now, you still need to use a bit of ezgif's wonderous service for this, to resize the gif. but, this time you don't need to do any fancy math bullshit, just resize it to the size of your frame. in this case, 99x56

download your new fantastic tiny gif, then go back to photopea, and click "file," then "open"

this will open a new "tab" of sorts, with all the frames of your awesome little cow gif!

from here, right click on the folder with all your frames, and click "duplicate into..."

which will open up this menu, where you can send it to where you've got your frame

your folder full of frames will appear on top of your frame, but thats okay, you can just click and drag on the folder until its under your frame

now you may be saying, "radspeon, the edges aren't transparent!!" and to this i say, i know my child, this is the point where you have to make a choice.

are you willing to erase the edges of this gif for every frame, to escape having to do math?

for me, yes that is the case.

it's tedious, yes, and may take longer than OP's method, but honestly it's more enjoyable because i don't have to do math. i hate math. i would rather become sisyphus than do math. okay. so we're gonna erase the edges of this gif.

I recommend you add another layer underneath it all in a color that youd be able to notice immediately, like bright green, since you are a human and by extension, capable of making mistakes, so thatll help you see any mistakes you make. You can delete this later.

(i totally didnt add this after doing an entire version of this stamp where i didnt add a bright layer and went to export it only to realize i made a fuckton of mistakes. nope.)

for some reason, and much to my chagrin, you need to right-click on the brush icon to find the eraser, i dont like it, but i don't know how to change it, so do that, and erase them edges. i recommend changing the mode(which you can see at the top of the screen by the brush size slider) to "pencil mode," so you don't have any weird antialiasing anywhere. in the business of stamp making, i personally despise antialiasing.

alright, youve erased all the edges on your wonderful gif, what now? well, first you delete the bright layer you put under everything(unless you feel like keeping it) and make sure that the only frame that has the little 'eye' icon beside it is the one you want the gif to start with(photopea is weird and itll get confused if you have more than one frame (layers with _a_ in front of it) 'visible' in the layers and order the frames wrong. in the picture the last frame of the original gif is visible, i changed this after taking the screenshot to the frame at the very bottom, THATS the first frame.) then you click on "File," and click "Export As," and then "GIF"

which will open this menu! here you can adjust the speed, but 100% is the speed that the gif originally was, so you can just download it that way if you want. "boomerang" just means that itll go through the frames before the last one a second time, so you get a looping gif.

here's my results, the first one at 1000% speed, and the other at 100%(i found the 1000% one really cute so im including it)

I’m not scared anymore. You know what I mean?