3d Printing Photographs
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- Lithophanes have been produced since early in the 1800s. These three-dimensional images come to life when illuminated from behind. In this video, I walk the viewer through the production of Lithophanes on 3d Printers. I have printed Lithophanes successfully on a Prusa i3 Mk3, a Creality Ender 5, and a Monoprice Ultimate 2. The techniques demonstrated here will work with any 3d printer capable of printing on translucent materials.
Any slicer, Cura, Simplify 3d, Prusa Slicer of others may be used to convert these stl files in gcode for your printer.
If you want to discuss your experiences with Lithophanes please head over to the MakeWithTech discussion group at forum.drvax.com. This free forum, open to everyone, supports a dialog with full image support between video viewers.
Here is the URL for the online image editor:
pixlr.com/
Here is the URL for the 3dp Image to Lithophane tool:
3dp.rocks/lithophane/
Here is a URL for the itslitho Image to Lithophane tool:
itslitho.com/
Let's continue to learn together. Irv
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As usual amazing material by Dr. Vax!
You are amazing. Thank you so much. I'm giving away presents now with all of my workplace asking me to make these for them. Thank you for teaching us this technique . Sending best wishes your way and please keep sharing your knowledge and skills. Kind regards
I love how well you explain somewhat complicated ideas in a simple and easily understood manner. In this video the explanation for aligning the print on the Y axis is something I had never even considered but you did an excellent job of explaining it.
Thanks
I saw it and learned something new in 3d printing..feeling excited and wanted to make one for my family..thanks Dr. Vax
Thanks for the walk-thru. First try, I did a really nice image of my friend's truck as a gift for him. It came out perfect. Thanks.
Thank you my friend. Your video is very complete. I enjoy it very much.
This video (although nearly 3 years old) has helped me a bunch! Thank you Dr. Vax!!!
Once again Mr Shapiro provided a plethora of knowledge! Thank you sir!
Thanks. I have been thinking about trying one. Now I think I can.
Very helpful, thanks for the hint to use meshmixer, was battling with those errors, and great idea to use the y axis
Meshmixer - brilliant! Thanks for cluing me in.
Really really nice, congratz!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent video! You have an outstanding teaching style. I love to print lithophanes to give as gifts. I was unaware of how lithophanes were originally made. I always learn something from your videos. Thanks for making them.
Awesome! Thank you!
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
Excellent video with lots of useful tips. I have been planning to begin making lithophanes and was looking for guidance. This has been very helpful. Liked, saved and subscribed. Thank you DrVax.
Excellent explanation of this type of printing you made it very easy to understand and in such detail always enjoy watching your videos. I just made my first lithograph did exactly what you said and worked perfect 👌 thanks so much
Excellent video and every one I've seen so far! I'll have to try this with my new Ender 3 v2!
Edit: Nevermind, you answered my question right after I paused. Lol. Thank you!!
1st and good to see that your well again @DrVax
I started printing these a few weeks back, but this video gave me some much needed tips! Thanks Dr. Vax!
just drag and drop into cura free quick and easy
Thank you so much 😊
I learned a lot from this vdo, thank you so much!
Thank you very much for yet another great and informative video. This process is intriguing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
Love the information shared here Irv, I need to try out these different types of suggestions before I comment further. Keep up the great work
Please do!
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
Thank you very good video!
Hi Irv, I'm new to 3d printing and just want you to know how much of a help you've been to me. Your explanations and demonstrations are awesome and easy to follow.
I am printing my first lithopane at the moment in prep for mothers day and I am going to check out those sites.
Thanks again
Cheers
Ant.
I made my first prints today my next step is litophane printing thanks to you
Im Roon4660 and I enjoy your videos and your forum. Nicely done and very informative.
Hi Irv.
Having subscribed a few days ago, I have just read some of the preamble on your website.
I, too, am coming up for retirement, and our daughter has just left home, having qualified as a Doctor, here in Tasmania.
I just wanted to thank you for these videos. They are capturing my imagination and I'm gradually catching up with your many exciting and informative insights and inspirations.
This particular one was just what I needed to help me renovate the pillar lights in our garden. Most of the glass panes in them have broken, and now I have the Prusa i3 Mk3s, with your help I am making PETG panes for them with a photo of our Border Collie showing through when we switch them on!
You're an inspiration!
I seem to be driving my wife mad with all this 3d printing, but I suppose she will adapt, eventually!
Many thanks, and Shalom
Chris.
Great video - never heard of these before, but I have now! Made one, and as a first shot it looks great. (I'm a keen photographer and Photoshop holds no terrors for me, much mystery of course ...) Really easy too. I would never have known about them if but for you - my sincere and profound thanks. I shall now watch the other litho vids I can see you made :) You do a very good channel, how I found the lithophanes, only had a 3D printer 2 weeks - clearly you're very knowledgeable indeed. I need all the knowledge I can get right now and I'm impressed - thank you. Phil
Good tut like how happy this guy is by 3d printing, a bit slow but thats not a bad thing slow is steady steady is fast 👌
very nice videos!
Very useful
Irv, I have returned to this video to remind myself about the lithophane process and really trust the quality of information coupled with your presentation style. I know things have moved on and we now have makewithtech to which I subscribe so wondered if you could produce an update video showing any process improvements, new software applications and so on.
Thanks again for the great work you do!
Very interesting contents as usual!
your clear and simplified language allows me to understand everything perfectly .... I'm Italian and sometimes some accents or more technical terms put me in a bit of difficulty ... but not with you Dr. !! Thanks 👍
Awesome, thank you!
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
Your website say IT's LIT HO lol great video learned alot. cant wait to make my own lithophanes of my own.
Very Nice. This could be used to create shadow images to order. There is a method of using the heat from the light source to rotate a cylinder that will create dancing images. Putting cylinders within cylinder can create quite interesting scenes.
I just subscribed - and I don't even own a 3D printer..
Sir you are my new uncle.
Going to try one for my wife after I get things dialed in a bit better.
another great video! thanks! so whats better - to print along x or y axis?
Wonderful video - I like it a lot.
For fixing not manifold models: Prusa Slicer take use of the Netfabb-API, so you simply click with right button on an object and choose "Fix through the NetFabb". You do not need to use an external program, so the workflow is more easy.
Another recommandation for 3d printing photos: MatterControl. I mostly use the fuctions for images to put a relief on a coin.
As a little background information: I live in germany, where labour is more expansive as in many other contrys (there is a minimum allowed for payment per hour and many social inssurances to be paid by the employer). So much less personal in supermarkets. To organise the shopping baskets without needing personal, they have a chain on the shopping car, which is released by putting in a 1€-coin (or a chip with same size). To get it back you have to put the basket there you got it and reattatch the chain.
So making the "maker coin" in the size of a 1€ coin you not only get a "buissnes card" but also a quite usefull object.
So printing photos, logos and/or text on a 1€-coin sized plate is quite a good idea in germany. And with MatterControl it is done quite easy. You might take a look on MatterControl, it´s free and quite usefull.
I am a big fan of the MatterControl tools and the terminal interface. I have not found the slicer as good as Cura or PrusaSliver.
Dr.vax I love your demonstration I have a question..my lithopanes are spoling with dirt..pla is more prone to dirt and dust..can you please suggest any kind of solutions to prevent from it??
Thanks.. Time for an update? It's a big topic. I'm trying to perfect my lith's. Getting some small specs of plastic on the face of the model, hoping it's a stringing issue that will be resolved by reducing speed and lowering temp's. Maybe It's down to the PLA+ I'm using as it seems to have a bit more stretch to it than standard PLA. I've been using 3d Rocks, it seems good but on screen controls are laggy. The other lithophane sites you suggest are decent too. An online photo editing site I use is good. Has very many editing options including crop, frame, border, back ground remover, scaler, and more. Well worth a look, it's Luna pics.
Very interesting- your timing is good, I was looking for something that can be given out as a present- so this fits the bill. I will get some photos of the grandkids and make some backlite frames. Thanks for the video.
20:55 it looks like a negative, because it is a negative.
can be switched in settings to positive.
He is paid to say it.
Hi Dr.Vax i like your videos, i have one question, when i use itslitho, i think my STL file is very large, it takes alot of time to transfer the sliced file to Octoprint. is there a way to reduce the file size?
Thanks From Denmark Europe, The Town of H.C. Andersen, Odense
DrVax when making your Lithophane put it in to a positive picture.
Thank you for this video. I did follow your instructions but am still having a problem. As expected, when I loaded the STl file that was generated by ITSLITHO, I did get the non-manifold error message in Cura 4.8.0. So, as you suggested, I downloaded and installed Meshmixer and ran the STL file through that. It generated a wopping 360mb STL file (the original STL file from ITSLITHO was around 28mb. However, when I loaded that into Cura, I still got the "non-manifest" error. Any idea why that would persist after running the STL file through Meshmixer?
Thanks!
Ideamaker IMO has the best manifold fixes and the fastest with offline capabilities
I have never been crazy about the Ideamaker user interface. I need to take another look.
P.S. I have started a new discussion forum at forum.drvax.com where we can all have more elaborate discussions and share pictures on our prints and printers. Check it out. Irv
@@MakeWithTech yeah, the interface is definitely lack luster and could use more features, but as far as advance features are concerned are really rich. Although, they can be very hard to find and are often counter intuitive but i have been able to fine tune them to the point where I can get a good 60 degree overhang and a consistently printable overhang of up to 80 degrees
Ender 3 PRO rules👏
Sounds like you like your 3d printer
great video and A1 presentation and so informative.. however it seams pixlr is no longer free and they require you to be premium to be able to do what you did with the background.. maybe i did something wrong on the site but tried everything i could see and select for the version to use and every time i hit auto ai it just says premium member only screen.. shame as a new printer this would of been great.. love your content DrVax.. thankyou for everything you do for us 3d printing newcomers.. however skipped that step as background was a light fade from a portrait so should still be ok.. so did everything else and i am now printing my first one....
Tech question. I have the bltouch on my Ender 3’s Mi question is do I really need the bed leveling springs still on it or world I be able to replace the springs with a solid tube and do away with the springs completely. Have you yourself ever ran as test on this.
I have 2 Ender 5s that I replaced the springs with solid mounts from TH3D. I removed them and put new high strength springs on. Nothing wrong with the solid bed mounts, it was with the Ender 5 having only support on the Z back side. the BL touch or in my case the Ezabl was trying to compensate for too much. Now I can manual level my bed and let the ABL do the fine tuning. A good way to visualize is with Octoprint and the add on Bed Visualizer
Can this technique be used to copy parts from a plan and then print them? I amazing thinking of the parts of a model airplane kit that is based on balsa wood construction..
I tried all the software you showed in this and got an OK print. Then I just moved a .png into Cura and it came out %100 better. And it was only one step.
Yep. That video is quite old and the Cura built in capabilities continue to improve. Thanks for the push, I think I need to do an updated video.
Great instructions! I have a question about a person with a beard when printing the beard is white and makes him look like a completely different person. I cant get a different picture because he just passed away and i was wanting to do this for his relatives. Thank you in advance if you can give any suggestions
You will have to use an image editing picture to change the color of the beard in the original image and then convert it to a lithoprint.
Do I have to have a square image uploaded in order for the lithophane to be a completely square in 3dp rocks?
Will the Repair in Bambu labs studio repair the image?
It would be helpful if you included the URLs to the sites and tools you use in the video. What I'm finding is I have to pause the video, open a new tab, and type the URL manually, hoping I don't bork it and end up some where I don't want to be.
You are correct. I rush this video out and forgot to add the URLs to the description. I have added them now.
DrVax , thank you
Prusa Slicer will fix the manifold errors for you.
Can't see the slicer settings for the second example?
just drag and drop into cura
sorted
What he didn't explain is that to use some of these awesome features is you have to at least sign up for a trial of the pro version and put in a credit card. I just tried to do this very thing and didn't get an ad but would not let me continue with the tool unless I put my credit card info in for the "trial" with auto renew
Cura will also generate Lithophanes just by importing an image file.
Thanks for this one Irv, really enjoyed it and I will try this out, just for the fun of it!
Great video!
But I think there is only one flaw.
At 20:55, the picture probably doesn't look like a negative because of the contrast, but because the picture is probably really set as negative. On the page 3dp.rocks/lithophane/, under the tab "Settings", "Image Settings" you can choose to display the image as positive or negative. "Positive" must be selected for 3D printing. I suspect that this was not the case with the picture.
But apart from that, a very interesting and informative video.
Keep it up and stay healthy.
Greetings from Germany.
It is negative ;)
I also wanted to write the same, greetings from germany too :D
I also wanted to write the same and I also send out greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
Folks, I have checked this multiple times and I did not have negative selected. One way you can verify is the background which was white/transparent would be black if negative was selected.
I appreciate your comment but I checked this and it was positive.
I made a screenshot of both images that were backlit and compared both of them. In comparison you can see the dark shirt, the light caliper and the dark beard. All this is exactly the opposite in the "negative" picture. The background should be black, that's correct. But that's not the case because the image has no existing background.
Dear DrVax, Please make ender 3 v2 bltouch Thank
Evaluating this. The challenge it the firmware and UI on the V2.
Thumbs UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if you scroll down, you'll see the colourful application too.
WHY NO LINKS TO THE ITSLITHO.COM WEBSITE ??
Very nicely done... The referral to the itslitho.com site I found specially helpful. I've been using the 3dp.rocks site with some success . Now I'll have to try the new one. Off topic... Why Dr Vax? Having worked for years with VAX computers that's what VAX is to me. Just wondering what your story might be.
Yep. I worked for DEC in the early 80s of VAX/VMS systems.
All cutout is a premium tool option.
Yes. But it still works in the free version. You just have to wait for the ad timer to complete, about 6 seconds, then you get an option to continue.
@@MakeWithTech Thank you, your the best.
Thank you.. I have been thinking about this idea for a while . A free image editor that's fantastic is a french program called Photo Filtre (French Spelling) you can find it at photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm. There is a paid version but the unpaid version does not have adds to support it. I have been using it for a number of years now and have never had it crash or create problems. Its my go to editor, It might just work for you.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Sphere all the way 😂
24'57" "a beautiful lamp"?? LOL
AI Cutout is premium only now, not ad supported. - now what :(
Krita is way better than GIMP and its offline and 100% free too