photo to maple

[stan kern]

http://youtu.be/VawE9Uj7zL8 24 min

http://youtu.be/XJHzp6JfOqM 26 min seems better qual

[Dee Gallo]

The second one is definitely better quality - what was the difference between:
1. original photo quality
2. pre-engraving treatment
3. settings for engraving

Time to share, Stan!

[Bill Cunningham]

Yup.. What Dee said...

[Frank Corker]

What Dee said and what Bill yupped.

[George M. Perzel]

What Dee said and Bill yupped and Frank concurred..

[Chuck Stone]

I yup with the yuppies :p

[Martin Boekers]

you got pretty good contrast on that Maple. I have to run multiple passes to get Maple to darken.

[stan kern]

i feel the photos were slightly different,i never touched them up or anything except to convert them to greyscale but the girl's skin was a bit darker than the boy, secondly it took awhile but i'm happy with the first one
And you do have to remove all the backgrounfd around the face(eraser)

[Martin Boekers]

Stan, what photo editing program are you using? There are much better ways
to knock out the background than with the eraser tool. Corel and PS have tools
within the program. They work pretty darn good around problem areas like hair
and fur.

There are tons of videos on You Tube here is one using PS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-TG0-qpZvs&feature=related

[stan kern]

will look at corel as i do use it