Whoa!!! 
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Oh man! I cannot wait to get my glowforge!!! any day now, right?
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This is absolutely astonishing. My partner and I have sat here for the past few minutes wondering together over what you (and the 'Forge team) have accomplished.
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Hi…the paper snake looks amazing. How did you create a file to cut this ? I would like to create art work like this when I get my Glowforge.
Gary
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HOLY CRAP! This is nuts!
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WOW! Great detail!
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The key to these is you need to create a negative of the image you want to print, so you’re figuring out where your lines are and then reversing them to cut out inbetween. I used google images to find some cool looking designs and went from there.
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should be reasonably easy. you find the positive b&w image, open it as a raster image in an image editing program (gimp, photoshop), then invert the image to make the negative space black, then engrave the black.
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I don’t have a glowforge yet but with other lasers the suction from the exsost will hold most of it down. For thin lioness that want to pop out and move I would lay card stock over the finished parts to secure them. Most of the paper art iv done in the past is about cutting in sections. After each section I place I lay something over it and move to a different area
Stunning results on this one. Thanks for sharing.
I looked but didn’t see the question asked. Sorry if i missed it but what was the job duration for this?
I don’t remember exactly somewhere in the 20-30 minute range.
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Hi. Can you share the specs on the laser?
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How did you isolate the snake from the photo in photoshop ?
Hi Jimm,
Just use whatever isolation method you like in photoshop, I didn’t do anything fancy for this. If you need help with photoshop I would check youtube, there are tons of tutorials out there.
@newbies_234 what weight paper were you using for this? Just trying to target a setting to do something similar on my 165 gsm heavyweight paper. Thanks! And if the info is above, sorry I missed it.
Never mind @newbies_234, I got it all worked out. If anyone likes this paper also and needs the setting it’s below. I also shared how it looks when cut, one image shows front, another the back and the last is a big image of a project I used this paper and settings. I hope this helps anyone that finds this thread.
Epson Heavyweight Premium Presentation Matte Paper
(0.016") Depth for material
200 speed / 12 power
Minimum line thickness 1.2 mm
Minimum gaps between thin cuts 2.5 mm
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Hey, not sure what you mean by starting this off by telling me never mind. If you look in the forum I clearly state what kind of paper I use, the settings, and have video and images of the effects. But uhh cool man. Looks like you figured it out.
I had asked you for the settings with no answer before. I must have missed them in the forum, sorry, @newbies_234
Still good, #necrogame