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Laser Engraving Photos
Laser Engraving Photos
who am i
Custom Castings
• My email is
• mike@engrave.ca
• My website is
• www.engrave.ca
our lesson purpose
• Rated in order
A Good Quality Photo
Software
A Good Quality Photo
Good Quality Photo
Bad Good
is the image to compressed
Bad Good
JPEG Compression
One of the big problems that we face is that most
photos that we are given now a days by our
customers have been taken on a Digital camera.
CorelDraw
Zoom in on
the image to
check the
quality This
photo is not
very good
quality
Here is how it lasers
When there is a
lot of
compression
blockiness when
we go to sharpen
we end up with
large “blocks”
which is no good
for our image
Or is the image just no good to
begin with
Converted Original
Proper Power and speed
Proper Power Laser Settings
I would be at least 10
to 15 % lower
As you can see the laser settings that are listed by the
manufacturer are not the ones that I would use.
Less Power
Missing
Line
Bolder
Font
More Power
400 DPI
600 DPI
now that we have a better
understanding of what is
resolution and dot gain let us
look at how to create proper
power and speed settings
Two Ways to create proper
settings
Just remember the more power you use the less detail
you can create. Considering we want detail than
using less power is preferable over too much.
First create a black box in
Coreldraw
Our Box is 2 “
wide and 3” tall
The box an be
any height just
choose
something that
will run for a
minute or two
Printing Resolution
Only Raster
Raster Speed
No Vector Setup
Our Sample
Material was
Brushed Gold
Engraving Plastic
Save the settings in the print driver
using colour mapping
Go to this link to
see a more
through
discussion on
this topic. You
will be able to
down load the
test file.
http://www.engrave.ca/archives/5348
know what type of photograph
you are working on
the difference between black and white
and grayscale
Our grayscale image looks better than the error diffusion image
Black and White Image Grayscale Image
Anodized Aluminum
Laserable Aluminum
Leather
Acrylic
AlumaMark
Examples of Fine materials
Anodized Aluminum
Anodized Aluminum
leather
Engraving plastic
black brass plated steel
laser aluminum
gold aluma mark
silver aluma mark
Coarse material
Low Contrast
Lots of Grain
Marble
Glass
Thermark Materials
Mirror
Corian
Fabric
Examples of coarse materials
wood
wood
corian
Glass
marble
marble
marble
thermark /cermark
Mirror
Material chart
Acrylic Corian
Laser It Mirrors
Note that the initial steps are the same for each photo
except there is an extra step for coarse materials
processing a photo for
lasering fine material
Here is my image
When we open up the command you have te two window view. There
are also sliders that relate to colour. Each slider allows to add (black) or
subtract (white). I have moved the red slider right.
Before After
Adjust the yellow in the photo
Here is our image adjusted for red (Before). The After photo shows my
yellow adjustment. These two adjustments give me a very good tonality
to the photo as it has reduced the red and yellow
Before After
Adjust the green in the photo
Nothing happens to the image when I adjust the Cyan. For that matter
nothing happens we we adjust the Blues or the Magentas
What About Cropping
HERE IS A PHOTO THAT NEEDS TO
CROPPED
OUR PHOTO HAS BEEN CROPPED
Resampling a photo
Resampling a photo
I have increased the resolution from 77 dpi 150 dpi. Notice the file
size increased four times - 2.90 MB
Resampling a photo
Rules
Make sure you know the size of the photo that you
want to laser. This is very important
What About Resolution?
resolution some important points for
photos