Engraving a JPEG

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Prepare photo for engraving tutorial

I’ve been struggling with engraving my photos on different materials. Fellow owners gave me suggestions and tip and today I finally got a good looking engraving. I thought I show the steps I did. Most likely some steps can be improved. Feel free to suggest improvements. I started with this photo I found online: [th_horses-2904536] Step 1: Desaturate: [image] Step 2: Adjust the curves: [image] I played with it until the tails are good and the background is as white as possible. Step 3: …

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…

Preparing a Photo for Raster Engraving (NOT NECESSARY FOR GLOWFORGE)

@Dan has let us know that none of this mess is necessary to engrave photos on the glowforge, so I guess you can take a look at this and be thankful you dont have to go through all this trouble! awesome! As forum users are starting to get glowforges, I figured I might as well put up this tutorial for everyone to reference when preparing their photos for engraving. This will give a very similar result to what you would get using photograv. Ill just do one you guys have seen already, since I hav…

There are others, all I did was search for “preparing engrave”, like this:

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=preparing%20engrave