Cutting and engraving wellLesson 14 of 19
Photo engrave
Get a photo onto a part as something the laser can actually burn.
Start with the photo you want on the part.
The shades become dots: sparse where the photo is light, dense where it is dark.
The laser sweeps the dots row by row and the picture appears in the material.
Every setting
11What each number in the dialog means, and where it starts.
Which photo. 0 is the first one you dropped on the canvas.
Dot pattern style
Detail, in dots per inch (250 is 0.1 mm between lines)
How many power levels. More is smoother and a bigger file.
Power for the palest part, as a share of the layer's own.
Brightness cut-off between burn and skip (0 to 255)
Layer to put the engrave on
Before dithering. Under 1 opens up midtones, over 1 darkens them.
Levels and sharpening before dithering, for flat photos.
Engrave the main subject only. Background stays blank.
What it is
Converts an imported photo to laser engrave scan lines using image dithering.