Hi everyone!

In today’s tutorial I’ll take you through the step by step process of creating a stencil starting from an image of  Bruce Lee.

If you have chosen a color image, go on Color —> Desaturation to make it black and white.

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Then block out the image with lasso tool (you can find this magic wand in toolbar).

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You will obtain a stencil of Bruce Lee (in this case) bacause the background doesn’t matter. 

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First method

Click on colors—>threshold, a window will open where you can regulate the amount of black and white. Regulate only the value on the left, in order to keep the background white.

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Second method

The second method consists of coloring the blackground black: modify also the second value from colors—>threshold. This is the outcome:

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