Photo Engravings!

Pprmntpaty · February 18, 2019, 4:12pm

Those look amazing! Fantastic job!!!

davidgal2 · February 18, 2019, 5:31pm

You have really mastered photo engraving. Could you show the PhotoShop adjusted picture that you used?

pubultrastar · February 18, 2019, 5:37pm

Those turned out fantastic. Very nicely done!

ptodd · February 19, 2019, 12:42am

Nice work on all! The high resolution makes things so much easier!

ChristyM · February 19, 2019, 5:18am

These are gorgeous! I guess I should spend some time figuring out settings.

pauline.lally · February 19, 2019, 12:10pm

All are very well done

chrichelle · February 19, 2019, 4:31pm

Here is the original pic and the version I used for the engraving!

davidgal2 · February 19, 2019, 4:33pm

Thank you.

dan · February 21, 2019, 11:32pm

Striking. Thanks for showing the original and edited pictures side-by-side. The matching frames pull them all together!

deirdrebeth · February 22, 2019, 1:09am

That fuzzing out of the background makes a huge difference…I’m now thinking that some photos that I rejected might make a comeback!

<3

chrichelle · February 22, 2019, 3:21am

WOW! Thank you, Dan!!

jbmanning5 · February 22, 2019, 3:45am

Yes, meant to mention this. A great job of dropping the background without a true isolation, @chrichelle.

ChristyM · February 22, 2019, 4:41am

Thanks for the side-by-side. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what type of edit I’m going for. This helps a lot! And completely agree on the background.

cdorsey · February 24, 2019, 8:31am

This is very cool to see. For the Photoshop noobs (myself prime among them—though pretty facile with Illustrator), can you offer any summary of the tools or effects you used in Photoshop to get to this point? Techniques or steps specific only to this photo would probably be less important than general tips on the order of “try using a light pass with the ______ Effect” or “make sure to fiddle with contrast before applying _______.”

Very inspiring in any event — thanks for sharing!!

mdeleon1104 · February 24, 2019, 1:05pm

WOW! These came out fantastic! Would you mind sharing your settings?

geek2nurse · February 24, 2019, 4:21pm

Per forum rules, non-PG settings (anything outside of standard PG settings on PG materials, or any settings on non-PG materials) were used, they can’t be discussed outside Beyond the Manual. If you head over to that section you can find a number of posts discussing engraving settings on various materials.

mdeleon1104 · February 24, 2019, 6:14pm

Thank you!

chrichelle · February 26, 2019, 2:25pm

This is the article I used to prep the photos: https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Laser-Engraving-Photo/

The key is removing as much of the background as you can and really playing with the brightness and contrast for the black and whites. I found that too much gray made the photos look really muddy. Hope that helps!

mdeleon1104 · February 26, 2019, 4:47pm

Thank you so much!

dkprystupa · February 6, 2020, 4:53am

Can you please provide what settings you used to get the quality of engraving you got?