Flash Sheet Planner
Planning a flash day? Pick the paper and the grid and see the largest piece that fits each cell, in inches, centimeters and pixels at 300 DPI, before you draw a single design.
Largest piece · 3 x 3 = 9 pieces
Sizes are rounded down, so a design drawn at this size fits its cell. Small pieces need bolder lines: check the line-weight calculator at 6.3 cm.
How the math works
The planner takes the paper, removes the margin on every edge, removes the space between pieces, and divides what is left by the number of columns and rows. If you leave room for a number or label, that strip comes off the height of every piece. Every size is rounded down, so a design drawn at the size shown always fits. Pixel sizes are at 300 DPI, the usual resolution for a clean stencil print: draw or export each piece at that size and it prints at true size.
Most home and office printers cannot print to the very edge of the paper, so keep at least a quarter inch (about 6 mm) of margin. The display sheet is for choosing; each piece should still print as its own stencil at the size it will be tattooed. The Friday the 13th flash sheet guide walks through planning the day, sizing the sheet and printing the stencils.
Turn each piece into a stencil
Stencil IQ turns your own artwork into a clean black-and-white stencil, ready to print, so each piece skips the hand tracing.
Need line weights for small pieces? Use the line-weight calculator.