How To Make a Multilayer Stencil On Photoshop (Re-Made) 

I'd love to see how you print, cut, and use a stencil after seeing you make it in Photoshop. This would help so much!

Would definitely like to see a part 2 of this and watch you bring it to life! :)

Enjoy watching your videos! If you start to do more tutorials, I would love to see your paint process and the process you do when it comes to cutting out detailed layers.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I have been working with stencils in my artwork for years. This has now made my stencil creation process 100% easier. Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU.

I'm totally inspired Sara. Your the first person I've seen doing stencil on youtube through a montana vid. Straight awesomeness! Now even motivated to create art and paint my town with it. Thank you for this channel and techniques your sharing. Once I do one I'll share it with you. Blessings!

Awesome! I loved your last how to video but the new one is even better!!

Damn you are a badass! After trying to cut out a simple stencil and failing 4 times, I finally did a search on RU-vid and came across your older video. I was blown away by your art and patience. Thank you for your new tutorial I really do hope you continue documenting the rest of your process. I've been binge watching your other videos and each one leaves me more and more inspired.

Thank you for this simplified tutorial. You rock!

Awesome, never knew how to do this! Thanks. Could you do a video explaining the rest of the process? Like, cutting them out, how to spray paint etc?

Sara we need part two lol I love your art

I'd love to see part 2!

Love the video tutorial, Sara!

Yes I would really like to see you paint this image on a canvas so we have a full video of all the steps.

Love your work sara

Id like to see from print to cutting them out! Can't wait for part 2

great video, you actually explain really clear!

can't wait to see the next tutorial 😃

Awesome tutorial. Thank you very much!

Amazing!! Thank you!!❤

ahh thank you so much!! love your work

thank you for sharing your wonderful work. I will try to do something simple.

I would also like to see you paint this one. Thanks for sharing!

Hey Sara! your work is very inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

thats dope

you explained this really well

Derp derpa lol! Awesome tutorial, I miss working in photoshop and illustrator. I think I'm going to pick it up again.

I flippin' love your art! Really looking forward to a step-by-step tutorial as you mention in the video, hope you do it! *fingers crossed* Anyways, thanks for sharing Sara!!!😄

AWESOME!!

A tip can be to not deselect after you've removed the white, then when applying threshold to the next layer, you can see where you stopped and how much will change when moving further to the right.

Thanks for sharing. I love your videos.

amazing ......thank you so much

Great Video! I've always wanted to learn how to do this and you explained everything simple and easy! How do you print it out and what do you save it as after doing this ?

Great tutorial!! would love to see how to do the actual cutting and painting process so that I can follow along! :)

i have a question on how you transfer this into like your paper or stencil paper or whatever that you are gonna cut out each layer. How do you trace all of the three stencils? and if you are trying to make it pretty big how do you transfer/ trace it onto a bigger size canvas?? i hope i made sense? hope to hear from you soon!! love your work btw hella inspire me!

How do you print to size your stencils? and as always i would love to watch more of your work Sara

Hi, love your work! what type of paper do you use?

Definitely make another tutorial!!

i love your work i recently started a custom skateboard painting business. I was inspired by your ones. I would love to see a part 2 also how would i deal with tiny islands and small details . thanks

wowwww

Thx 4 this great tutorial. How do you print youre larger stencils??

thank you Sara!

great tutorial :)

when you print them do you do a white color overlay and a stroke so it's just an outline of everything?

Part two for sure. Especially what u use to cut it with u have cricut thinking of changing it to silhouette

That was helpful thank you!

Very Helpful! When you planning to paint this out!?

Love your tutorials! I was just wondering, what would you do if you wanted to create a layered black/gray/white stencil, but also wanted a layered colored part (like the eyes). How would you separate the two parts?

when you print these images, which one do you use first and so on?

Can I ask what kind of paint you use for your stencils they look amazing!

Hello Sara, great video, thank you, just a question, not sure it is related to stenciling or not, I have a picture, kind of a band logo, I want to modify the photo in order to cut it out for painting on a T shirt, so I guess your tutorial is suitable for my work because it will be easier to cut out those area on the photo , am I correct?

This tutorial was very nice!! Very simple! Could this be helpful for tape stencils? I sometimes do tapepainting art stencils..

it's going to be my way as well!

How do you do the multi colored layers like your Flash art? Thank you so much for this tutorial!!

Can you make a video of you painting it, but also tell us/ show how you print your stencils

Nice one!! :-)

do you copy them on to paper by hand or print them? I've tried both usually smaller stencils 2 or 3 layers by hand cause I don't have easy access to print onto larger paper

Can you do an island layer tutorial

what type of paper do you print off your stencil

NICE VID....👍👍🎁

thanks

Am so trying that

hey love your work how much would you charge for a 4 layer custom pic chosen by me skateboard?

if you use some vector-friendly software you should be able to do this way faster. ex. in inkscape you can select trace bitmap to path option and then select brightness (or colors or grays) steps as you wish

you should make a video of you cutting this out..you know to show us the whole process and where to cut on each sheet. btw your art is amazing :)

So after all this, you print each layer individually and cut what's filled in correct?

is photoshop the only program u can use to do this like ur doing

what kind of paper do you use for your stencils?

Yes please do a video on the printing and cutting the stencil. How do you print out the large stencils?

Awesome art, channel and love ur IG acct. Is etsy your preferred method for selling individual pieces? Do you take custom orders? Have you had a chance to create a tutorial for the printing to painting portion yet?

Can you do custom multilayered stencils for people to buy cause I have a picture that I would like to use but never have the time to actually learn how and do it myself and seeing your work is phenomenal and really what I'm asking is if you are willing to make me one? I want one for my deck.

A step by step would be awesome, I always have issues from after I print my stencils (paper is hard to cut on and tears easily and trying to transfer it)

Yes, show part 2 so that we can understand the whole process.

I've never done one of these but i started the process before. I stopped because i could't get passed how rough and scattered some spots were. Could you show how to fix that?

how do you handle island layers?

when ever i try to delete the background or the white when you go to colour range my computer just says "could not complete your request because the smart tool is not directly editable" does anyone know what to do

i'm trying to do this on cs6 but when i delete the background, the treshold window stops working, any idea what might be causing this

How do you save each layer individually? So I can print them?

Nice video, but how do you deal with islands and very tiny places?:)

Great video. Please, make video of painting this image on a canvas.

Should I grayscale the image first before doing the thresholds or does it matter? Thank you!!

Sara, That was awesome, but what I need is the next stages. I do not need the color because I airbrush the images. I cannot get CorelDraw 7 to sent my images to my plotter (Graphte CE6000-24 or something like that). Any advice on cutting them on sticky back stencil would be very helpful. I have spent many hours hand making stencils or free drawing things for people. Thanks

When I make a stencil and print it's really pixelated any help to smooth my Line out

How do you print them out onto the stencil paper

please do the vid of your process with this image :)

How do you print them out onto the stencil paper?

I never get the hair done.. did. u edit the hair.. ??

I hope you do another one...three years later! LOL!

I want to learn to make the template's she used for her flash and deadpool art, can someone pls help me

So the black layer (the first one you did) would be the top layer? or the last one you actually paint?? Second dumb question lol : After all this you simply cut out the black (or gray) parts of each stencil? I asked this because there isnt much black on her arm and hand, but it would still look like an arm and hand? I hope you understand what I'm asking lol

Can you please make a tutorial on photoshop cc 2017 I am a beginner and can't find the information I want anywhere online. I love this tutorial but it doesn't hold up on the new photoshop. Please help.

does anyone know if there's any simple way to get rid of all those small dots everywhere and to make the picture overall "smoother"?

What about the "white" the one with no details only the overall form? Btw nice tutorial and I really like what you do!

Fala paracaralhooooo!!!!! kkk

thanks but again you haven't shown how you cut then out. what is probed? the white or black?

how would you make the fourth layer

Can you trace the different layers by hand?

Is there any aktrnative to this software

Which app do you use??? Pls reply

Hi, how you print each layer?

Question: Isn't it necessary to create the white layer as a separate base layer? Otherwise the canvas would be everything showing in white. So essentially, the white would be another layer at the very base so that when you spray it, it looks exactly like it does in photoshop?