ANY PICTURE, ANY FORMAT

Picture to Stencil

Clip art, a scanned sketch, a coloring-book page, a screenshot — if it opens in a browser, it converts. Drag any picture in and download a cut-ready stencil.

JPG, PNG, SVG, GIF, WebP — all supported
Drag & drop, upload, or paste from clipboard
Free, unlimited, nothing uploaded

Different pictures, different settings

Each kind of source picture has a sweet spot. Start here.

DRAWINGS & SCANS

High threshold, outline off

Pencil sketches and inked drawings scan light. Push the threshold up until the linework fills in solid, and add smoothing to drop paper texture.

CLIP ART & FLAT GRAPHICS

Nearly any threshold works

Flat two-tone art is the easiest convert — the defaults usually nail it. Use Outline mode if you want just the contour for tracing or engraving.

SCREENSHOTS

Crop first, then convert

Crop to just the artwork before uploading so UI chrome and text don't end up in your stencil. Paste straight from the clipboard with Ctrl/Cmd + V in the full editor.

One converter, four outputs

01

Solid stencil

The classic: black areas are the holes you cut and paint through.

02

Outline / line art

Sobel edge detection traces contours — for engraving, tracing, and coloring pages.

03

Inverted stencil

Swap cut and kept areas with one click for negative-space designs.

04

Vector SVG

The full editor traces your stencil into real vector paths for Cricut, Silhouette, and laser cutters.

Picture conversion questions

Does it accept SVG files?

Yes — SVGs are rasterised on load and convert like any other picture. If you need vector output back, use the SVG export in the full editor.

Is there a file size limit?

No hard limit — processing happens on your device. Very large images are automatically scaled to 1200 px on the long side, which is plenty for print.

Can I convert a whole batch?

One picture at a time, but there's no daily cap — convert a hundred if you like. Each one takes a few seconds.

The result looks speckled. How do I clean it?

Raise the Smoothing slider a step or two — it blurs away noise before the threshold is applied, which removes speckle without softening the big shapes.

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