Free photographer SVG files

Sizes, thin parts and materials

The photographer with the camera up is built from heavy parts and cuts well in vinyl and iron-on from about 80 mm tall: the strap across the chest is a cut line a little under 2 mm wide at 100 mm. The head and shoulders behind the camera is bolder still and reads from across a room on a tote bag or a studio door.

The camera on a tripod and the softbox stand on legs about 3 mm wide at 100 mm tall, so they want 120 mm or more in vinyl and are happier in card, plywood or acrylic. The film strip has twenty-six sprocket holes about 4 mm wide at 100 mm: weed them with the point of the hook, one edge at a time.

Frames for a studio name

Three of the designs are frames. The viewfinder frame is a wide rectangle for a name or the name of a studio, the lens ring takes one to three initials, and the instant print has a square window for a photo and a margin for a date. None of them carries wording, and the camera in them is a plain one that copies no maker.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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