Papercut Art

Layered paper pictures with real depth - a photo sliced along its actual depth into up to twenty layers, parametric landscapes, animals and clouds you can shape, letters with real counters, and a look that runs on three dials.
Extension

The lightbox look - layered paper scenes with real depth.

Papercut Art builds the picture the way a paper artist would: layer by layer. Sheets of paper stack into one scene – mountain ridges, rolling hills, waves and skylines that reroll with every seed, animals, clouds you can billow and fray, a punched moon or a sun, and your own words in real paper letters, counters and all. One shared light casts the shadows between the layers, and that is where the depth comes from.

Everything you place stays a thing you can grab. Click it in the picture, drag it anywhere, turn it, resize it by its corners, send it to the layer behind or in front, or punch it out of the paper as a hole. Nothing is locked to a horizon, nothing is baked in, and Ctrl+Z always leads back.

Or start from a photograph. The picture is sliced along its DEPTH, using the editor’s own local depth model, so what ends up in front really was in front. Each layer can take its colour straight from the photo, and the subject cutout lifts a person or product onto the front layer. Everything happens on your device; nothing is uploaded anywhere.

The look runs on three dials instead of a list of names: the colour comes from a palette or from your photo, the paper is smooth or fibrous, and the layers are separated by a deep soft shadow or a narrow hard rim. Ready looks and ready scenes sit on top of them as starting points. Insert the result as editable layers, one per sheet of paper.

Features

Scenes that reroll

Ridges, hills, waves, skylines, animals, clouds, moon and text - every element is parametric and rolls a fresh silhouette per seed.

Features

Photo depth slicing

A picture becomes depth sheets along its brightness, tuned with draggable handles on a live histogram - and the local subject cutout lifts a person onto the front sheet.

Features

Proven cuttable

Minimum bridges in real millimeters, automatic stencil bridges and a connectedness proof for every sheet - what you see can really be cut.

Features

Cut package & reveal

Insert as editable layers, export one clean SVG per sheet for cutting machines, or record the scene assembling sheet by sheet.

What is included

  • Ten ready scenes from Misty Alps to Night Wolf
  • Parametric ridges, hills, waves and skylines
  • Eight animal silhouettes that stand on the ridge line
  • Cloud sky with punched birds, moon, eagle and butterfly
  • Text sheets as stencil letters or cut windows
  • Photo slicing with live histogram handles
  • Fully local subject cutout for the front sheet
  • Eight looks, six frames, light and paper grain
  • Cut package: one SVG per sheet, sized in millimeters
  • Reveal video and editable layer insert

Requirements

Works in every modern browser. Runs on top of the free WunderPaint; nothing is uploaded.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Every sheet is checked: nothing is thinner than your minimum bridge, floating pieces get stencil bridges, and each sheet is one connected piece. The cut package exports one SVG per sheet, sized in real millimeters.
No. The cutout runs entirely in your browser with the same local model the free tools use. Nothing leaves your site.
Yes. The scene inserts as a group with one editable layer per sheet, and Edit Papercut Art reopens the studio with every setting intact.

Add Papercut Art to your editor.

It comes with the Pro plan, updates included, and supports the continued development of the free open-source editor.

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