Every StencilCut tool, in one place

Photos are the hardest input for a stencil maker. busy backgrounds, soft edges, multiple subjects. This tool removes the background, isolates the subject, adds bridges, and hands you a one-piece laser-ready cutout.

Photos carry uneven lighting, blown-out highlights, and busy backgrounds. all of which scorch as artefacts on a laser bed. This tool re-balances exposure, removes the background, and applies a material-tuned tonal curve before the engrave file is rendered.

Drop in a PNG, get back a scalable SVG that keeps the alpha exactly where it was. Best for logos, icons, line art, and screenshots where the transparent background is part of the design.

JPGs carry a layer of compression noise PNG doesn't. This converter does a JPEG-aware cleanup pass before tracing, so photo logos and scanned sketches come out as crisp paths instead of confetti.

Drop in a PNG, JPG, WEBP, or even a screenshot and get a clean scalable SVG back. The converter auto-tunes itself to the input format, so you don't pick threshold sliders or trace settings.

A DXF you can drop straight into LightBurn, RDWorks, Fusion 360, or AutoCAD. R12 / AC1009 flavour for universal compatibility, sized at 150 mm wide, auto-bridged for stencil cutting.

PNG is the best raster format to feed a vectorizer. lossless, alpha-aware, no compression seams. This converter produces a closed-path R12 DXF that drops into LightBurn, RDWorks, or AutoCAD with no extra prep.

JPGs come with 8x8 block-compression noise that confuses generic tracers. This converter runs a JPEG-aware cleanup pass before tracing, so the R12 DXF you download has real edges and not compression seams.

Describe what you want in plain English. the AI invents the design, then vectorizes it as closed SVG paths. Skip the "find a stock SVG, edit it, vectorize, fix paths" loop entirely.

A vectorizer tuned to produce SVGs the Glowforge App reads without complaint. Closed filled paths, no rendering tricks, sized at 150 mm so it lands inside the Basic, Plus, Pro, or Aura bed at a sane scale.

A DXF you can drop into LightBurn without the "unclosed paths" warning. R12 / AC1009 with closed POLYLINE entities, written in millimetres so "Use file units" lands at the correct physical size.

Drop in a photo and get a clean SVG and DXF that import straight into xTool Creative Space, sized in millimetres and ready to cut or engrave.

Turn any photo into a clean SVG or DXF that drops straight into LightBurn for your OMTech CO2 or fiber laser, auto-bridged and sized in millimetres.

Turn any photo into a clean SVG or DXF for LightBurn or LaserGRBL on your Sculpfun, auto-bridged and sized in millimetres.

Turn a photo into a clean SVG cut file that uploads straight into Cricut Design Space, ready to cut on a Maker or Explore.

Upload a photo of your dog, cat, or horse and get a clean, laser-ready pet portrait, SVG and DXF for cutting, plus a grayscale image for engraving.

Turn a favourite photo of a pet who has passed into a laser-ready memorial, to cut or engrave on wood, acrylic, slate, or metal.

Make a clean, connected name sign that cuts as one piece, SVG and DXF sized in millimetres for wood or acrylic, ready for any laser.

Turn a couple's photo into a personalized wedding or anniversary gift, a clean cut or engrave file with names and a date, ready for any laser.

How StencilCut and StencilVector compare for turning photos into laser-ready stencils, and which fits your workflow.

How StencilCut and ImagR compare for preparing photos for laser engraving and cutting, and which fits your workflow.

Inkscape is a free, powerful, fully manual vector editor. StencilCut is an automated photo-to-stencil pipeline. Here is an honest look at what each does better and which one fits your project.