The Wolfling Project

I prepped some artwork in PhotoShop and tried some photoengraving on the laser this morning.

I was able to test-burn a scrap piece of basswood, as well as two pieces of acrylic. The smoke-colored one was slightly thicker than 1/8", and required either multiple vector passes or very high power (7% speed, 88% power) to cut.

I inverted the B&W of one of my photos from Japan, and made it manga-like through the use of PS filters. The resulting 1200 DPI image looks nice on black acrylic. Note: 1200 DPI on a 6" x 12" image takes 45+ minutes.

Tip: messing with saturation settings + the Cutout filter = easy arty goodness. See the statue below.

Unfortunately this image has too much grayscale and pixel density to engrave well.