Add Clear Space Around a Stamp
Add transparent breathing room around a seal so the rim is never clipped by the frame it lands in.
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Drop a stamp or seal
PNG, JPG, WebP, SVG or a 1-page PDF — up to 20 MB
Runs entirely in your browser. Your image is never uploaded.
Why a seal needs room around it
The rim is the vulnerable part
Almost every seal puts its most important text right at the outer edge. Any container that crops even slightly — an avatar frame, a fixed image box, a PDF field — takes that text first. Padding moves the artwork away from the boundary so there is something expendable to lose.
More than a logo needs
The default here is 80 pixels rather than the 64 the logo tool uses, because a circular seal has no flat side to sit against. Every point on the rim is equidistant from the crop, so all of it is at risk at once.
Transparent by default
The added space is transparent, so the seal still drops onto a coloured document without a visible box. Pick a fill colour instead if you need the padding to be opaque.
The canvas grows
Padding enlarges the image rather than shrinking the seal inside it. The impression keeps its pixel dimensions exactly — nothing is resampled and nothing softens.
Squaring a round seal
A circular stamp exported tight is rarely a perfect square, which makes it sit oddly in square containers. Padding is the simplest way to give it an even margin on all four sides.
Clear space rules
Resize first, pad second
Padding then resizing scales the margin along with the seal, so you lose control of how much clear space actually survives.
Transparent unless proven otherwise
Opaque padding only works if you already know the destination colour. Transparent works everywhere.
Round marks need more
A circular seal has no flat edge to protect it, so every point on the rim is equally exposed. Be more generous than you would with a wordmark.
How to add clear space around a stamp
Upload the stamp
Transparent works best — the padding matches. Scanned to PDF instead? A single-page PDF works as well — page 1 is turned into an image in your browser.
Set the clear space
Around 80 pixels suits most seals. Choose a fill colour if you need it opaque.
Download
Free preview, or the full-resolution file in the app.
When clear space matters
Avatar and profile frames
Stop a circular crop eating the rim lettering.
PDF signature fields
Give a fixed field somewhere safe to clip.
Template image boxes
Fit a seal into a slot that crops to fill.
Print bleed
Add margin so a trim line never crosses the impression.
Or just ask
Describe the edit in your own words
Type what you want changed and the assistant does it on the canvas — each step lands as a layer you can reopen, so nothing it does is baked in.
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Add clear space to your stamp
Protect the rim before it gets clipped.