My process for this piece:
- Found free vintage camera blueprint on web
- Used photoshop to remove the yellowish background and had to split each figure into it’s own file as all together the glowforge wouldn’t accept it since it was too big.
- In Illustrator, I then put the 3 figures and signature area into a 10x14 rectangle and added the font at the top
- Each of the figures took about 1 hour to engrave, so I did them over the course of a day while I was doing other things. In total, it was about 4 hours engraving for the entire tile.
4a. 1000 speed, full power, 450 DPI, Vary power for the engrave - Once I had finally engraved the whole thing, I did the following on each section (did one section completely and then moved to the next):
5a. took a black paint pen and rubbed it all over the engraved areas - you will, of course, get paint on the still glazed areas. I’d try to avoid getting paint all over the glazed area as it does take some time to remove it, but you need to paint all the engraved areas
5b. Then I used a damp magic eraser to just lightly remove the paint from the glazed areas - leaving paint in the engraved areas. This took a while per section - maybe 15-20 minutes just gently running the magic eraser over the section I painted in 5a. - I did #5 twice for each section as I had wiped away a little bit too much paint in the engrave the first time.
I learned so much from this thread - Etching Tile