Dustin Pike digi stamps

I know I have mentioned it a couple of times on my blog that I am teaching myself how to paint digi stamps using PSP. For those of you who might be interested in doing the same I have found a lot of free stamps online. There are a lot of them out there. I even use coloring book pages.

Now the reason for this post. I have come across a wonderful artist who has been creating digi stamps (for a lack of better words). His images are awesome. You can find is blog at dustinpike.blogspot.com. I don't think you will be sorry. Another thing that I think is great for anyone wanting to try the painting of the images is a software that removes the white background from the image. It is a filter plug-in for many of the image manipulation software like PaintShopPro, PhotoShop, and PhotoShop Elements just to name a few. The name of the plug-in is AlphaWorks by Cybia. I have used it on every image I have painted so far.
Using the plug-in gives your image a true color and placing the filtered image on the top layer maintains the black outline that most images have. Anyway below is another digi stamp this one is one of Dustin's.