Yes I know you have used a pair of scissors before. However, I have a few tricks that will help you get super clean and accurate cuts.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Cutting with Scissors

Remove the page from the magazine: Trying to cut an image out of a book or magazine is much easier if you remove the entire page from the book first.
Plan Your Cut: Before you begin cutting out the image, quickly plan how you are going to complete the cut. The last thing you want to do is be in the middle of a cut and realize you ruined a really awesome picture of Joan Rivers by cutting her head off.
Cut most of the extra paper off the image: Just like removing the page from the book, your goal is to eliminate as much extra paper off of the image you want as possible. While your cutting large strips of paper may snag and pull at your scissors and will likely cause a mistake.
“Scissors Cut Paper Moves”: As a K-8 art teacher, this is my golden rule of good paper cutting. Instead of ‘tracing your scissors around the perimeter of the image, keep your scissors stationary. Use your other hand to slowly rotate and feed the image into the scissors as they cut.
Slightly Cut into the image to avoid a “halo”: To get a perfect cut with your scissors, you want to avoid leaving a thin layer of the background.
Know Your Limits: Scissors aren’t great at cutting everything. Cutting out negative space (without damaging the image), lots of small angular cuts and very long straight cuts should be done with a craft or hobby knife. Having said that some pictures may not be worth the time to cut. Complex clusters of hair and tree canopies are some things that come to mind.

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-The Red Wizard