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/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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can anyone help me out and turn this into a stencil?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Gesture_raised_fist_with_thumb_and_pinky_lifted.j
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>> No.41073

link is broken, fixed it here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gesture_raised_fist_with_thumb_and_pinky_lifted.jpg

>> No.41079

/diy/

>> No.41083

well it's related to a /diy/ project of mine and i have no clue on how to use image editors.

>> No.41097

Not to ruin your thread, but the guys at /po/ do stencils, and they're pretty good at that, you could ask them first.

>> No.41107
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41107

You realize /diy/ means do it yourself, right?
Anyway, to make a working stencil you need to separate the shapes into silhouettes consisting of light and dark to make your shape.
The easiest way would be to take the image to photoshop, desaturate it, mess with the brightness/contrast/levels, and use the cut-out filter.
From there you will need to adjust it so that it can be a working stencil. If you plan on doing only a one layer stencil, then you need to decide which area you're going to cut out and which area is going to be the stencil (generally the areas you cut out are going to be the shadowed area, but not always). From there you need to look at your actual stencil area and erase any islands (shapes that are not connected to other shapes, meaning they will fall out when you cut it out) or connect them to bigger shapes so that it can not fall out. Keep in mind that everything that is a part of the actual stencil has to be connected.
There can be islands of the cut out areas, but not of the stencil area. The only way to get around this would be to use a wire mesh to hold up the islands or use a multi-layered stencil.
I'm sure there's countless tutorials you can look up on the subject.
Good luck.

>> No.41132

Wait, let me correct myself....
>>41107
>and use the cut-out filter.
Use the "Posterize" filter instead (it's under image adjustments) and set the levels to 2, this will leave you with only the white and black part of the image.

>> No.41210
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41210

Well, I had nothing better to do.
The white part is the stencil, the black part is what you cut out.
Like I was sayin', the white part (stencil) is just one whole shape with no islands or floating pieces. Also when making stencils you might want to think about how well the stencil will stand up; unless you're using really strong cardboard, it will flop around if there's no support. I made supports for the shape in the pinky and thumb, connecting it to the frame so that it doesn't flop over when you try to hold it up.