Nice! I think most of us can sympathize with the years in the making statement.
Now get that Proofgrade stored flat!! 
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I have to get busy on mine. I keep thinking of a new one and someone else does it before I can, my skills are not up to the level of some on here so it takes me longer. That is extremely good looking!
Thank you all! But the only thing I did is pick the right image from an image search, correct the measurements, greyscaled it in photoshop and had the Glowforge cut it. I’m not an artist. I am however very good at turning other peoples art into something different. I’m a big believer in “Beter goed gejat dan slecht bedacht” It’s a dutch marketing term. Translates into “Better steal a good idea instead of coming up with something bad”
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Wow! Awesome … Just like your new Glowforge!
tell us more about hte giant banada tho…
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Hahaha, I was wondering when someone would notice! The banana of course is for scale!
I was part of the organisation of an Andy Warhol and other pop artists exhibit in Amsterdam. The giant banana was made to hang in the foyer of the exhibition hall and is made out of styrofoam. However when we got it it was painted as a real banana and it needed to resemble the one from the cover of the Velvet Underground record. So I had at it for an hour or so with a sponge and black paint and voila!
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Incredible work, yes among the best
Winner winner chicken dinner! 
Oh…and thanks for a little clutter in the picture… another pic of a spotless shop just might push me over the edge! Ha! 
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Not really a fan of Dragon Ball but this. is. awesome.
looking at the amount of details in this Goku, it’s not something we can just take a pic of the internet and load into the glowforge. what method is being use here?
just got my glowforge and a huge fan of dragon ball.
It might be, the 
does a really good job with line drawings.
When I first got my laser I did a few items without any editing to the original images, here’s a good example:
I did punch them out of the original picture, but as for color adjustments, I didn’t mess with that at all outside of light contrast and brightness edits.
Super cool, great design!
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Hi, I took a Goku vector I had on file and ran it through photoshop making the whole thing greyscale. Put in some more contrast and tweaked the levels a bit. I’m sure there are loads of youtube content that will walk you through the steps of optimizing for laser engraving.
good luck!
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This is awesome, mind sharing the settings PLEASE. I’ve been doing some DBZ prints and it engraved way too deep on the dark areas. I’ve been wanting to make keychains
Settings can only be shared in the Beyond the Manual section - plus they change depending on your material, not the art.
It sounds like you might get a lot out of the First Prints section of the manual, particularly the Working with Manual Mode part.
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As I made this 3 years ago I don’t know what settings I used to engrave it. But it’s one of the first things I did so probably proofgrade settings.
Very cool!!!
Great Job!
Agreed!!!