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[evermorian]

If you didn’t see it in that thread, my experience with the dye discharge paste, including a short demo video, are here:

Jacquard deColorant (discharge paste) + lasers = "screen printing" by removing the dye

[ACrawford_20231028_0001] I decided to give this a try. In the spirit of the season, I used a photo I took in the catacombs under Paris. Shockingly enough, despite years of Glowforging, this was my first photo engrave. The original image is pretty contrasty already but, I riffed off of JB Manning’s photo preparation tutorial to optimize it. A test engrave on card stock looked good. [IMG_9870_small] For the first attempt, I treated a rough rectangle with the dye removal paste and, let it…