Once your doodles are digitized there are so many things that can be done with them. Tiny stamps are only the start of their wonderful digital existence.(vinyl decals, leather stamps, coasters, the list goes on) The first thing we are going to do is snap a photo of our doodle. If you are like me you have a lot of random doodles crammed in to a tiny sketch book. So once you have a photo use google photos or other photo software to crop out all your other masterpieces and focus only on the doodle you want to digitize.

Armed with our cropped doodle it is time to fire up Inkscape. Once in inkscape we are going to import our doodle. Right now our doodle exists as a bitmap and we need it to be a vector graphic so it can be infinitely scaled without pixelating. This will allow us to shrink or grow our doodle without loss of details.( That is pretty cool in my book.) To do that we are going to use the Inkscape function Trace Bitmap. With our imported doodle selected find the trace bitmap option in the path drop down menu. This pops up a complicated looking window. The parts we care about are down towards the bottom. First thing to do is turn on live preview. After that I select either colors or brightness steps down in the bottom and see which one looks better. For Skullsby here I chose color. From there it is on the scans section. This is the number of scans it is going to make of the bit map. You can play with this number and look at the live preview. I find 8 scans is a pretty safe bet. Once your previews is looking good click okay and let Inkscape work it's magic. After a brief interlude while your computer is working you now have a grouped vector of all your scans. From here right click on your grouped vector and select ungroup. Then spread out your scans to pick the one you like best and delete the rest. Congratulations you have digitized your doodle! With this base file you can do so many things. The next steps are going to be tiny stamp specific.