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How to Make a Stencil on Your Phone

The whole studio works in a phone browser, so you can photograph something and have a cuttable stencil before you have left the room. Nothing to install and no desktop step in the middle.

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Follow these steps

  1. Open freestencilmaker.com in your phone browser and choose Upload an image file, or use your camera if offered.
  2. Use the tabs along the bottom: Layers, Adjust, Clean up and Draw open as sheets over the canvas.
  3. Switch between Painted result and Cut sheet above the Download button to check your work.
  4. Tap Download, keep PDF as the File format and choose Download PDF to save it to your phone.

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