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Raven is ridiculously easy to use.

• Save your source file
• Open Raven
• File > New Document
• File > Import File
• Select your image after it imports (the border will turn blue)
• Object > Bitmaps >Trace Bitmap
• Select the Black and White tab (provided you're using a b&w image)
• Set Minimum area to 1, set curve optimization to 0, and quality to high
• Hit ok
• Drag to select all paths (blue border again)
• Resize as you like (not really necessary)
• File > Export (I usually export to PDF, then open it in CS5 to check bridges/islands and fill the background, then I save to PNG. No more pixelization.)

You can also adjust all your paths prior to exporting, and a whole bunch of other things that I haven't figured out yet.

I win the award for the longest title yet. Just something I made real quick and thought was funny. Original photo

This one was really straightforward.

• Loaded into Photoshop (if you don't have PS, get GIMP)
• Desaturated the image, thresholded at about 30%
• Deleted the text
• Saved to PNG
• Imported to Aviary (Illustrator or Inkscape work as well)
• Traced the bitmap (Object>Bitmaps>Trace Bitmap, black and white tab, minimum area=1, curve optimization=0, quality=high
• Enlarged by ~200%
• Exported to PDF
• Loaded PDF into PS
• Cleaned up lines, set bridges (you can do this in Aviary/Illustrator/Inkscape if you feel comfortable editing nodes and segments directly)
• Re-created text
• Merged visible layers, cropped, saved as PNG
• Done

Yay for childhood!

I tried vectorizing the font, too, but it really was a bitch. Hope I made the bridges big enough, otherwise, I'm open to criticism.

Original thread

EPS file here

Printer friendly version. I win the award for the longest title yet. Just something I made real quick and thought was funny. Original photo.

If that is a perfect circle you could technically use a bladed compass, with the correct diameter. But what are you trying to do exactly? That stencil will be very flimsy, if you cut out the middle as well. But to be honest the easiest and cheapest way to do it would be to tape the back and front of the two pages very well together and cut it out carefully yourself.