How to Laser Engrave Photos, Images and Artwork with a few simple tricks!
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Keep in mind I am comparing the free version of imag-r here, which is what most folks use. Yes, you pay for the full version and get lots more function, but why would you want to pay for software when you already have great photo software already built into Lightburn??
Most smart phones/tablets have pretty good photo editing capability built in also for no additional cost
Hello Rich, Have you used this same process for engraving images onto slate?
Thanks
Rich, you might think this is a long video but I for one appreciate the detail of instruction and it gives me the why of a process. It helps me learn and adapt this to my own projects. I love the tip about presets and that will help me so much. Keep'em coming!
Thanks Larry! Always more coming!
Hi Rich. You are very humble man, everybody say that you are a master of Lightburn and that's what it is, don't denied it. We love how you run the
classes every time, no mater what subject or project you may be talking about. Therefore you have so many people here trying to learn from the best, You. I was waiting for this video to learn about your technic on how to engrave pictures now, after watching your video everything seems to be so easy even though there is so much more to learn yet. Thank you so much for your awesome class. Cheers
Thanks again Bob! I appreciate your support Sir!
Thanks, Rich, for everything you do. I like your demeanor and the subjects you choose to cover. You are very much appreciated.
Regards,
Pete
I appreciate the support, thanks!
I love your humble laugh. Thank you for your time ❤
My pleasure Sandy! Thank you!
Thanks so much, i cannot tell you how much that little info on masking changed my interpretation of photo burning. Wow!!🎉
Awesome! 👍 Thanks for watching!
Your an EXCELLENT teacher! I'm totally new to this and very much appreciate your help. Thank You So Much 🏆
You're very welcome!
hello rich.
this video is great again. you put a lot of time into it even if it is your hobby. you take the time to show these videos and pass them on to us, that made me a petreon of your work that you always tell us really beautiful lessons and very understandable and instructive.
thanks for that.
Wow, thanks Luc! Always happy to share! Thanks so much for your support!
Wow, THANK YOU SO MUCH for explaining all that. I have a whole new understanding of laser engraving. You are amazing
Happy to help!
Wonderful! Now I have a video to send people to when they want to learn this. Engraving has never been my thing. I certainly learned a ton. I seem to be doing less and less outside of Lightburn, which is fantastic.
Glad to hear it Eric!
Another great tutorial, Rich. Nice to see your workflow & how the photo transforms into something engravable. If only I could use my dslr to it's full potential. Thanks for putting this video up, it's much appreciated.
My pleasure David!
Thank you for showing us how to improve our photo burning tecniques.
My pleasure!
Just want to thank you for sharing all this information. Always great content.
Thanks for watching Gordan!
Another great video. Thank you for all your videos.
Thanks for watching Terry!
Hi Rich. Another fantastic video. Once again thank you for sharing all this type of information. Between yourself and Hobo with Wood I have learnt so much. Without it I probably would have throw the laser out by now.
Glad it's helping Terry!
I refer to you as the guru! My dog is black and I have failed trying to engrave. I can’t wait to put these teachings to use on my next practice time with her pic. Thank you so much!
Black dogs are the hardest to do, but with a little work, they can come out as good as any other engraving Dianne.
I refer to Richbas the mentor
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Thank you!
Thank you for your time! This video was very helpful!!
Glad it was helpful!
So glad I found your channel thank you!!!
Thank you so much Jim! I really appreciate it! 👍
Thank you for all you do
Thank you so much Bob! I really appreciate it! 👍
Good stuff as always. Thanks!
You bet!
Thank you for a very helpful video.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Rich, if you are not an expert I don't know why we would need experts. This is the type of video giving the necessary tips and tools to start photo engraving and to develop it further. Great stuff, thanks.
Thanks so much Rik!
Thank you!!
You're welcome!
I wish I could figure out how to do this with Marking Builder Plus. That's what our Keyence runs on. Btw I'm in Raceland. Nice video
I'm not familiar with Keyence products.
Thanks!
You bet! Thanks so much for the support!
OH My Goodness, someone else that actually uses Xara. Regards from England x
I've been using it since it came out Paul. The new versions make it unbeatable!
Great video. I'm not sure if it is different for a Diode, but for C02, I do not resize the image to test. Instead, I crop the image to some detail, like a face. I then run the burn tests on that small portion of the larger image. This way the results I see from the tests will exactly match the results I get when I run the full image. When resizing the image to run the tests, you would be making all the dots from the image smaller, or each dot you burn is now covering a larger portion of the test image, and not representative of the final output. :)
Whatever works for you! I'm not looking for an exact representation of the resolution, just a sample of the shading.
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🤪 Thanks Fred!
Great info.
For anyone wanting to take pics to use, (most phones can do this as digital cameras do). shoot your photo (and edit the photo) in .RAW format. This will (basically) separate all tones into individual editable areas. This will enable you to (only) brighten the darkest areas and take down the highlights (and midtones) without affecting the whole photo.
Hope this helps somewhat.
Cheers
Great tip JC; thanks! I shoot all my photos in RAW and import them into the photo software, but most of the ones I get are from other people.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy .RAW...? I have an I phone.
Not familiar with i-Phones Pat.
@@patdennis4576 Iphones (I think starting at 12 and 12 pro and up) can shoot in RAW format. It's easy to do a search and find out how. Good luck.
Contrast and white balance!
To your liking!
I'm an expert on making mistakes too!!
🤪 Thanks for watching Katie!
❤thanks Rich
Thanks for watching Steve!
If you're not making mistakes, it means you're not trying.
Oh I'm trying! 🤪
Another great video, thank you!
I have a question, In your opinion, is baltic birch ply the best wood to laser engrave a photo on?
Any clear grain hardwood is the best. The less grain, the better.
Awesome work and info , did you have air assist on while burning ?
Yes, I have it on all the time to keep the lens clean Gary.
great video Rich - I am going to try and do a photograph of a policeman and his wife at their annual ball - BTW what program were you using for the dog
It's a program called Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Burt. Originally a spin off of and designed by Corel. I believe Magix Software sells it today and it's cheap, a one-time purchase.
Great video, thx! This is another asset. On a different note - what was the outro music?? Can you please tell? Thx again.
The song is Vendla - Morelia. It's an amazing, smooth Latin piece!
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Thanks for the video. Hopefully it will help me get better results when engraving photos. I did download the Veronica folder and have a question. I imported the image into LightBurn and applied the Veronica preset. When I preview the job it looks terrible. I can not really even see the image.
Yes, previewing it only shows you what the laser will burn. It's supposed to look that way.
Hey Rich, off subject a bit but I’m wondering if you ever got around to making a chiller out of a ice maker? I’m thinking of trying it even though I live in Canada and our “hot” season is only a cpl weeks long.
I did that video a long time ago Ken, and it worked fine.
What speed and power are you using on the Roly? After watching your review of the machine, I purchased one. What a great machine.
The speeds and powers for photos are in the Lightburn Library I created for this laser. This one was from the plywood setting, Grayscale at 10000 mm/min and 95% max, 19% min power.
Very informative video. I’m interested in your comments about better results with “out of focus.” I like etching tiles with NWT method. I saw a video by Nicky Norton on how to focus. He took a black aluminum business card and set the laser at low power and slowly lowered the laser until you could see it twinkle - or start to burn the card. I did this but then thought what about start low and move the laser up. The difference in the two is about 3-4mm so I have used the average of the two. Might be interesting to run some tests.
Also, I have an OLM3 10W. I (and others) have had no luck using spray paint with high levels of TiO2. This was very disappointing. I did find I can get pretty good results airbrushing TiO2 powder mixed with alcohol on the tile.
Thanks for watching and the comments! I have no problems with the LM3 and the NWT method as it's called.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Would love to see the paint you used, tile, paint technique, and etching parameters. I went through maybe 50 tiles and could never get dark blacks only brownish. Seems like the tile surface was being removed (using a USB microscope). Then with TiO2 was like night/day. I etch at 5000/17 on my LM3.
This video was engraving on wood.
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Thanks Rich for the great tutorial. I have an image on a project and when I adjust the image, the preview turns into a black square. Any tips?
You're likely previewing it. In the preview, you have to zoom way in to see the scanning.
Very helpful. One question, I often want to trace a photograph for the outline because it provides a much cleaner rendering on an engraving but often have issues with getting good lines in the photo to provide a good trace. Will the use of masking help with that, or will the masking edges become hard edges for the trace, thus providing false lines?
I don't usually trace photos Mark.
HI Rich,
When you process the image in LB with presets or manually, then when assigning to a layer on cuts/layers, do you re-designate the image mode, etc.... or do you check the pass-through button like when using an external processor like Imag-R? Thanks for the video!
No, passthrough is only for imported images that were adjusted in another program.
Can you tell us more about the miniscus lens you refer to?
Not in a text, but you can Google it!
Hi Rich, thank you so much for this video. I am a complete novice have just bought Xtool D1pro 20w. What photo editing software do you use please ? thank you so much again x
I use Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 19 Stella. It's cheap and a one-time purchase.
Rich, when you talk about photo editing software, are you saying that Lightburn would be sufficient without having to use another program for masking? I am trying to decide what it will take to purchase a JTech Photonics laser kit for my XCarve. Also, would you say that going bigger is better? They have a 24 w with an air assist that is not that much more expensive than their 14 w or 7 w. I am looking into trying to do trophies and plaques as well as hobby art. I have used the CNC for about a year and a half and am excited about taking this next step. Thanks in advance!
Yes Kelly, you can mask in Lightburn. I don't know anything about the JTech products, so I can't comment on them.
So with the photo software, do you make those adjustments before using Imag-R or after?
This video was explaining why NOT to use ImagR.
Might be a dumb question, but at the end of this video you said that I’d need to get a photo editing software. I watched another video of yours, your lightburn 101 video, and you said you could do everything through lightburn. I’m extremely new at this and my laser is arriving in a few days, so just was hoping for some clarification on that. Thanks in advance.
I occasionally use photo software to tweak certain parts of a photo before importing it, but it's rare.
Hi Rich, great tutorial as always. I want to understand, when you say "de-focus by 1, 2, or 4MM, does that just mean raising the laser up by that amount from the target? Thanks for everything you do.
Yes Russ, exactly.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Thank you Rich, really appreciate it and keep the videos coming. They have helped me so much with my laser.
Hi Rich
once again great video - my photo engraving is a complete waste of wood / slate / canvas lol 😂 .
I have bee using ImagR to do the editing but they are a total disaster every time.
after watching this video I am going to try editing with Lightburn.
When you say de-focus do you raise the laser or lower the laser or doesn't it matter as both would put it out of focus i suppose?
cheers
I raise the focus a few mms.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Thank you your a legend.
I am so very new at this. I can't find your test pattern for calibrating my Atopmstack A40 Pro. Can you help?
If you're talking about material testing, it's built into Lightburn now under the Laser Tools menu.
Hi, was just wondering a black dog, how would you do that, would you just lighten the shade up like you did with the nose of the white dog?
Yes, I would do multiple masks Dafydd.
Hi, I've been struggling with images and QR codes on aluminum business cards. Do you have any suggestions. I do use Imag-R and have had some success, but from one photo to the next, I've had different outcomes.
None that I can answer in a text. Try posting on my free forums. lahobbyguy.com/bb
Do you have a tutorial on how to use lightburn? My hubby is struggling
There are over 100 videos on Lightburn on my channel Heidi.
Newsprint may look good on canvas.
It does!
Do you know why I'm getting diagonal black and white bar/thick lines when I engrave an image in lightburn? This is happening lately. Thanks
No, sure don't. Check and see if your lens is clean.
I see that you have presets for tile painted black, do you think you can share this presets i Will like to test it because I'm not able to fibd the right settings
I only shared the preset for this one for a specific laser Sebastien. You have to run tests to find the correct preset for your laser.
Hi I have edited a photo in lightburn adjusted the image to what I think are the right settings but when preview the image it does a fill what am I doing wrong. I find your videos very informative and helpful but this one I seem to have mist something can you help me please.
Zoom in on the preview to see the actual photo. Previewing photos doesn't really show you much.
Just tried using Windows built in software - choose filter, then black & white cool - set it to 50% and voila, seems to be an "okay" picture 🙂
Will try to learn Gimp also, the other option seems to easy...
Thanks for a very informative video that a newbie can understand, I really like this down to earth approach of things!
Wow! Thank you so much Jan! I appreciate the comment!
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Can you please try to validate it?
Could be great to see a comparison with your “real work” vs “cheat method” :-)
I only have one method based on many hours of testing Tobias.
Hi Rich what photo editing program did you use in this please
It's a program called Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. Originally a spin off of and designed by Corel. I believe Magix Software sells it today and it's cheap, a one-time purchase.
Can you direct me to one of your videos or a Lightburn tutorial. I want to make a circle and put writing thur it but stop the circle where the writing occurs. I have a picture but can’t seem to paste in this area. Thank You 👍👍👍
Try posting on my free forums Robert. lahobbyguy.com/bb
can you tell me what your laser power is set for this? min? max? thank you ...i just did a map of Tamriel for a friend and I used 5 and 50 % it turned out great
also speed :) thank you
I really don't remember if it's not mentioned in the video Stan.
@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy ok no problem thank you.
i'm working on a photo tutorials for Lightburn and Imag-R dithering, dot size, timing etc that will translate to any laser. consider it a part 2 to this video!!!
Awesome Patrick!
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy thank you sir!
Hey Rich! I'd like to get the settings for Veronica. Everytime I download it, I get an error message that it cannot be downloaded securely.
You could have just bypassed that message, but I fixed it. The download is secure now.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuyThank you
R your settings for the Roly 10 watt?
Whatever I have in the library Carl. I don't look at the settings on this laser. I think it was 11000 mm/min and 85 power.
What photograph editing software do you use or recommend?
I use Xara Photo & Graphic Designer by Corel.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Thank you! I just downloaded the free trial. Do you happen to have a code for recommending?
Maybe you could help me i tried to engrave a photo grey scale however the image was pure white both is the preview window and on the slate itself. Jarvis and Stucky looked grainy in the preview window, I don’t know what’s happening I have engraved photos before beautifully.
Try posting on my free forums. lahobbyguy.com/bb
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Thanks Cesar, but it's true!
@@richiesrestorations4883 Much appreciated! I'm happy these videos are helping people!
Thanks again Rich
This may be a silly question but I haven't been able to find an explanation yet... I am trying to engrave a b&w photo (jpg) onto slate, but when I choose the Grayscale image mode, nothing shows up in my preview screen. Would you happen to know why that happens/what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
Zoom all the way in on the preview and you'll see the image scan.
@The Louisiana Hobby Guy Thank you!! I greatly appreciate how you always take time to respond and give advice! 😊
Thanks Rich, de-focus seems to be a good trick to use, but unless I missed it, you don't explain how to de-focus.
Just raise the laser head a couple of mm.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Thank you sir.
Yes, there are stupid questions! I am at home, playing around with Lightburn. I opened a .jpg file, selected Adjust image to Grayscale. It looks great, but when I Preview/Play everything shows Black. Do I have to be connected to the laser to preview? I wish I could post images here.
Images preview all black. Zoom in if you want to see the image, but the preview is mainly to see the job and the layer priority, not images.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Oh my goodness. In Preview, I clicked on Shade According to Power and the image became visible. Whereas before, I would only get a solid black screen when clicking on Play. I am thinking I probably have to learn what settings are for Speed/Power? Am I making sense? I have trouble articulating my thoughts.
Do you use the borax solution?
No, I do not Adrian.
I do all my editing, looks great in imagr...and then import it into lightburn and look at preview and the picture is totally washed
Ignore the preview except for how the job will run. If you edit in another program, you have to double click the photo layer and turn on Pass-Through. Or you can just use the same editor in Lightburn by selecting the image, right clicking on it, and selecting Edit Image.
I'm sorry Rich, I do enjoy your videos but when you use ImagR to resize an image while leaving the DPI set to 72 and then compare it to an image in Lightburn of 396 DPI it annoys me. Please compare apples to apples, not mellons. Appart from that keep up the good work.
I wasn't really comparing the two image qualities Paul. I was just comparing the free version to Lightburn's built in image processor and how you can save time with presets.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy I understand and thank you for the prompt reply.
ok, I must be an idiot, I can't find this file or the settings on your website. I'm in the Member's only Files and went through all your files. is it somewhere else I'm not looking? PS... dude your tutorials ROCK!!!
Click on *...more* below the video to see the description. The zip file is there.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy yea, I was an idiot. I just saw it after you posted this. and I looked before asking. Thanks man!! you're doing a HELL of a job!!!
Thanks!
Awesome video BUT you should have closed the nag window on your screen in the first 5 minutes or so.
It comes back every time you move from screen to screen Mike.
I love your vids, but this time I think this is an unfair comparison and more your lack of understanding Imagr? I have the paid DT version and there are 10 diff algorithms that are way better than LB.
and I find it has way more control and better tools to optimize a photo. Also their tools program has removed backgrounds works very well among other great tools.
I was comparing the free version, which most folks use. I do understand that it has a paid version with more functions, but I would say that calling them way better without learning Lightburn is also biased as well. Neither software will produce quality photos without actual testing and adjustments, which was the focus of this video.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy or was it the de-focus of this video? 😄
I was right whit you until you said "righ here you have preset"
I explained it in the video Tony. It's just a preset I saved with the best settings.
Thank you!!
You're welcome!