Has anyone here been able to accurately engrave a full on picture (aka family picture) or something of the sort onto wood or even acrylic? I had tried in the past with little to no experience with the glowforge and it did not work well LOL. I don’t really think i can clearly do backgrounds but i might be wrong?
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it can be done, but there are a LOT of variables – it seems tile & acrylic seem to be a better medium for photo’s then wood… I have had (small) luck transferring a photo to wood,
there are MANY many (many!) posts about engraving photo’s on all three mediums.
do a search!
Let us know how it goes!
Jonathan
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Many Glowforge users have great success engraving photos on various materials, and there are lots of examples here in the forum. Here is one example, And i finally nailed the photo engraving
There are lots of discussions Search results for 'photo engrave' - Glowforge Owners Forum
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You mean positionally accurate (like in the center of a cutting board) or accurate like a faithful reproduction of the photo?
You have gotten good advice so far about photo reproduction, I’ll add this – check out #9:
As for positional accuracy, generally for something like this a jig is a good solution. there are lots of posts about them:
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oh yeah, engraving on wood is extremely difficult with all the variables like wood density and such. I do feel like acrylic would do a better job than wood in that case.
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No i meant an accurate reproduction of the photo with depths and such. I’ll give your article a good look and come back to you in a bit!
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Oh yeah #9 is exactly what i’m looking for! My picture that i tried engraving did not have any depths to it at all and was really hard to distinguish the silhouettes in them.
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The biggest part of photo engraving is the prep before you ever put it into the machine. Have you run through @jbmanning5’s suggestions?
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