The stuff around the edges I’d say is chipping. I’ll have to look at it tonight for the ones outside the letters. As I mentioned, I pulled this out of my aquarium. I have Nerite sp. snails in there, and they leave tough little white egg cases that I had mostly scratched off. Those could be remnants of them. My process for this was very basic - just typed the message in Gimp, exported as jpg and imported to GFUI. I’m completely new to this and have a lot to learn. Last night’s lesson was depth maps, playing with laird’s 3D Engraved Snowflakes