Contour cut-path studio
Upload your artwork, adjust the cut path in real time, and export a true spot-color PDF or SVG that drops straight into your RIP software. No install, no plugins, no desktop suite.
How it works
The whole loop runs in the browser. Trace once, then adjust the cutline in real time. Every drag re-offsets instantly, no round-trips to a server. No waiting.
PNG, JPG, or SVG. Halo traces the edge of your design automatically and builds a clean outline to work from.
Set the offset and bleed, round sharp corners so backing doesn't tear, or swap to a circle, square, oval, or rounded shape. It all updates as you drag.
Export a real CutContour spot-color PDF or SVG that your RIP software reads instantly, or grab a free watermark-free PNG for mockups.
Features
Drag the offset and the cut path redraws in real time. No waiting, no re-tracing, no exporting just to see the result.
A true minimum-radius fillet on the cut line stops sharp points from tearing the backing paper on your cutter.
Not a hidden layer or a swatch trick. A genuine PDF Separation named CutContour that routes straight to the blade.
Watermark-free PNGs for listings and mockups cost nothing and never sit behind the paywall.
Tracing, live preview, and color sampling all run in your browser — nothing is uploaded to build the preview. Paid vector exports are generated on our server and never stored.
Runs in any modern browser — Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Safari. Open a tab and you're cutting.
See it in action
Drag any artwork onto the stage and the outline traces itself.
Slide the cut a hair off the art and add print bleed so no white edge shows.
Soften sharp points so the cutter doesn't lift the backing.
Download the CutContour PDF and drop it into your RIP software. Done.
Pricing
Tracing, live tuning and every cut shape are free to use, forever. Pick a pass when you need production files — or take the year and stop thinking about it.
The full studio and unlimited PNGs.
Cut-ready exports. Bring your own transparent artwork.
Everything in Cut, plus the background remover.
Everything, all year — less than ten months of Cut.
Payments handled securely by Polar. After checkout you'll receive an access key by email — enter it once in the studio to unlock exports. Canceling stops the next renewal — you keep access through the end of your paid period.
FAQ
Halo exports a real PDF Separation spot color named exactly CutContour, which is what Roland VersaWorks reads to route a path to the blade. If your RIP recognizes a CutContour or named spot layer, it will pick up Halo's cut path. SVG export is also available for other cutting workflows.
Any modern browser such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Safari all work. There's nothing to install and no extension to add; the whole studio runs on the page.
The trace, live preview, and color sampling all run directly in your browser — your art isn't uploaded to build the preview. When you export a cut-ready PDF or SVG, the file is generated on our server, sent straight back to you, and never stored. See our Privacy Policy for details.
The entire studio is free to use: tracing, live tuning, every cut shape, and watermark-free PNG export. Cut ($9.99/mo) unlocks the vector exports — the CutContour PDF and SVG that go to your cutter. Studio ($14.99/mo) adds the background remover, so you can start from any artwork instead of only transparent PNGs. Studio Annual ($99/yr) is everything, for a year, at well under either monthly rate.
Only if your artwork still has a backdrop. If you already export transparent PNGs — from Procreate, Canva, Illustrator or most AI generators — the tracer reads that transparency directly and Cut is all you need. If you're working from JPEGs, screenshots, scans, or anything with a white box behind it, the background remover in Studio is what gets you a clean cut line instead of one that wanders into the background.
Yes. Upgrade, downgrade or move to the annual pass anytime from the Polar customer portal — your access key stays the same, and the studio picks up the new plan the next time you open it.
Cancel anytime through the Polar customer portal. Canceling stops your next renewal; you keep access through the period you've already paid for. There's no long-term contract.
No. If you can drag a file onto a page and move a slider, you can build a clean cut line. Halo does the tracing and the math; you just tune it to taste.
About
Halo comes from Sticker My Life, a small print shop in Mesa, Arizona. We spent years wrestling with desktop software just to create the cut lines for our own stickers. Getting a clean contour line meant bouncing between heavy desktop software just to trace an outline, nudge an offset, and hope the corners didn't tear the backing.
So we built the tool we always wanted: something that traces your art, lets you tune the cut the second you drag, and hands you a file that goes straight to the machine. No suite to buy, no plugin to wrestle with, no jumping between programs, nothing to install.
We use Halo on our own production runs every day.
— The team at Sticker My Life
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