Advice on Photo engraving

[Jules]

Not my forte - I’ve just played. Prepping the photo is step one, and @takitus has a nice little tutorial here:

Tutorial - Preparing a Masked Image for Engraving

This tutorial is long overdue, but I promised a few people I would post it, so here goes. Im doing an engraving ive already done before so you can see some of the different options available when engraving something with a weird shape and an outlined cut. The outline part isnt necessary, but useful in a lot of situations, so this tutorial is a 2-fer. This is the image we are starting with. Im going to be bringing it into photoshop to clean up, and get some of the initial shapes to move into ve…

Other than that, @mpipes has done a lot of depth engraves, he could assist.