Help with photo

[greg lindsey]

I have been asked by the family of an old friend who recently passed to create a plaque for an urn. I would like to place a photo of him on this, which will be on engraving aluminum or brass. I have no clue how to do this, I have watched the youtube videos and still nada. I'd be more than happy to pay someone to help me with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My goal is to crop out the background of what I think is a very simple photo. I have it as a jpeg also if that helps. Thanks for looking.

[walter hofmann]

Hi there
this is a bad picture to much shadows.
I try to convert it attached the result.
the dpi is 318 what is a scan gap of 0.07 on a DSP machine
greetings
waltfl251520

[greg lindsey]

Thanks Walt, I'll look and see if I can get a better photo, maybe it's the material that just won't do very well. It came out very washed out. I appreciate your help.

[Chad Fitzgerald]

Hi greg, what size are you wanting it, what color alum(does it need to be inverted)dark material that engraves light or light material that engraves dark? i have some time today i dont mind playing with it, always need the practice. lat me know.
chad

[Mike Null]

Greg

Here's a quick and dirty attempt using PhotoPaint.

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The second one is laser sublimation on brushed silver engraving stock.
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[greg lindsey]

The image will be very small, about 2" x 2" on black alum plate ( trophy material) or black brass
Thanks

[Larry Bratton]

251767Greg,
The attached is about 2x2 at 300 dpi. Prepared with Photoshop with a black background, greyscale ready to invert for your black aluminum. The photo was not great, so test it first to see what you get. Hope it works for you.


The image will be very small, about 2" x 2" on black alum plate ( trophy material) or black brass
Thanks

[Larry Bratton]

251767Greg,
The attached is about 2x2 at 300 dpi. Prepared with Photoshop with a black background, greyscale ready to invert for your black aluminum. The photo was not great, so test it first to see what you get. Hope it works for you.


The image will be very small, about 2" x 2" on black alum plate ( trophy material) or black brass
Thanks