Turn a portrait, a pet photo, or a favourite landscape into bold, high-contrast stencil art — the look of hand-cut street art, made in your browser in seconds.
The threshold turns every pixel into black or white. Some photos are ready for that; some need help.
Side-lit portraits split cleanly into light and shadow, which is exactly what a stencil needs. Flat, even lighting turns to mud at any threshold.
A busy background merges into your subject when thresholded. Crop tight, or pick shots against sky, walls, or seamless backdrops.
Skin texture, grass, and film grain become speckle after thresholding. One or two steps of smoothing melts it away without losing the big shapes.
Spray through the stencil onto canvas for a one-of-a-kind portrait — the classic pop-art look.
A pet's silhouette on wood or slate. Outline mode gives a fine engraved-style line for laser work.
Skylines and mountain ridges reduce beautifully to two tones — try the Mountain sample above.
Small stencils dabbed with ink personalise cards, notebooks, and wrapping paper.
Move the threshold slowly around the midpoint — faces live in a narrow band. If it's still muddy, the photo is too evenly lit; try one with stronger shadows, or use Auto as a starting point.
This tool makes single-layer stencils. For a two-layer effect, download twice at different thresholds — a dark layer and a mid layer — and spray them in register.
No AI. It's deterministic image maths — the same photo and settings always produce the exact same stencil, and nothing is generated or invented.
Anything over about 1000 px on the long side is plenty. The editor processes up to 1200 px and exports SVG if you need infinite scaling.
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