When I was working on https://community.glowforge.com/t/celtic-knot-etched-onto-apples-leather-iphone-case/11185 I had to crop out some of my source image to get the effect I was aiming for (and to reduce job time). It would have been really helpful if I could capture a 1:1 image of the glowforge bed to help work on my image. If I could do this, my work flow would have been:
That makes perfect sense. Crop out everything you don’t want to cut. As far as I’m aware you can only use a square/rectangle at the moment but others have requested different shapes in the past too. The ideal situation I think would be to have an elastic select tool of some kind - either freehand or point to point.
Not a stupid question! It’s possible, but it’s a bit janky. And it wouldn’t be the same size or ratio even perhaps, so there’d be some room for error between taking the picture and sizing the image to work with.