I finally found the time to play around with engraving photos. I used a solution of Borax on 1/4" Maple plywood for this one.
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this turned out great. What prompted you to use Borax?
An article I ran across discussed it. I’ll try to post something in the tips section when I get a chance.
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How did you process that photo? It looks more like drawn art than a photo!
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Very nice!
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I converted my image to B&W and then uploaded it to https://www.imag-r.com/ for further processing. Works like a charm.
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this is amaizng!!!
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Very nice result! Will bed to check that website!
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I have heard of imag-r several times, but never tried it. This is amazing and makes me want to try it even more!
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I’m curious what the borax was for?
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A water and borax solution on the wood can make the process faster (requires less power, thus more speed). It can also make the engrave darker.
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Well, that was an interesting rabbit hole, thanks for pointing the way!
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Nice to know, thank you.
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This is an amazing link thanks!
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I just bought a month of the offline version…don’t trust online versions (ironic, huh?) do you think you can post your settings in the beyond the manual section? Or just message them to me 
very nice. Looks like your solution could use a little more borax. It’ll produce a completely black mark when you hit the right ratio. 
Very striking turn-out.
Well done!
That’s a good result. I really like the color.