Emelia Stone
03-25-2014, 8:21 PM
Long time viewer via my husband's account. First time post with my new account. My husband is the genius, silent type and he has built & sold several lasers over the years as a hobby. I don't speak the lingo but I can say with some confidence the lasers my dear husband has let me use have been CO2, YAG and Diode. While we lead busy lives and have numerous family activities outside the home, we enjoy laser projects when we have spare time. We are not in the business of selling any form of engraved item. I am intrigued with any mechanical object but I tend to gravitate towards the artistic side in anything I look at and love to see what people can accomplish when they apply themselves. i.e. I am in awe of the power of an old steam engine and what makes it work but I can't help but focus on to every individual part and see beauty in the design, texture, & placement of said part.
Now to the real purpose of stepping up to the podium and looking out at this huge crowd of people. I hope this is okay to talk about. There has been so little talk on this subject and I can't fathom why.
Mr Outten, I would like to thank you for initiating the photo contest. My interpretation is this was to promote how much more you can do with engraving a photo then opening a jpg file and sending it to the laser. What a marvelous way to promote discussion of material use & editing methods! I applaud you for having the foresight to limit the contest to common materials that are easy for all people around the world to find and to limit equipment to the CO2 laser that most of the members on this forum seem to use. It would have put many at a disadvantage had you not done so. It's not easy to compare roof shingles to spring flowers. Since our current laser build is a diode I had to sit this one out.
I would like to thank Mr Cunningham, Mr Williams, Mr Rinne and Mr Chance for including their original photos so that we may see the "before" image. This really made an impact for me when viewing the entries submitted.
I did not see any statements where any of you granted anyone permission to your copyright. Therefore I respectfully request permission from Mr Cunningham, Mr Rinne and Mr Chance that I may download a copy of your original photos so I can experiment with my editing skills and attempt to achieve the results you did. I will never in any way display derivatives of your photos or give your photos to other people.
Thank you Mr Cunningham for posting details on engraving glass and for your additional post about the bug on glass. You inspire me to try engraving glass and you have already answered all the prep questions I had. You have shown with your groundhog that you can engrave more than one shade into glass with a laser. Simply marvelous work! I'm not letting you get away without a question -- With your experience engraving glass, do you think you could have engraved Mr Rinne's photo successfully on glass? My uneducated guess is there are too many details such as the cobblestone path that might turn into a solid blob.
Thank you Mr Rinne. I hope you can understand my English. I have never seen this type of photo engraving before. Your method of engraving is very fascinating. I look forward to challenging myself to see if I have the talent to edit the photo two very different ways and combine them together the way you did. I think this method would look lovely using an American Western landscape with a dirt trail and weathered barn.
Thank you Mr Chance. This is the first example I have seen of anyone using powder coat on a photo. I thought it would turn everything solid black yet I can still see all the shades of greys & whites as the original photo showed! Once again, I look forward to the challenge of learning how to edit the photo like you did to "dim the background" without losing the fine detail in hairs & whiskers. I have one question for you on the powder coat. Would you engrave the wood the same way if you did not use powder coat? Sorry to put you on the spot but I have one more unrelated question for you! You mentioned removing purple tinge caused by the camera. Would you explain how that was done? I too have photos with purple tinge and would like to fix them.
This last question is for ALL of you who entered the contest. Several of you mentioned using Photograv to process your photos. Do you think you could have achieved similar results for this contest without using Photograv?
Now to the real purpose of stepping up to the podium and looking out at this huge crowd of people. I hope this is okay to talk about. There has been so little talk on this subject and I can't fathom why.
Mr Outten, I would like to thank you for initiating the photo contest. My interpretation is this was to promote how much more you can do with engraving a photo then opening a jpg file and sending it to the laser. What a marvelous way to promote discussion of material use & editing methods! I applaud you for having the foresight to limit the contest to common materials that are easy for all people around the world to find and to limit equipment to the CO2 laser that most of the members on this forum seem to use. It would have put many at a disadvantage had you not done so. It's not easy to compare roof shingles to spring flowers. Since our current laser build is a diode I had to sit this one out.
I would like to thank Mr Cunningham, Mr Williams, Mr Rinne and Mr Chance for including their original photos so that we may see the "before" image. This really made an impact for me when viewing the entries submitted.
I did not see any statements where any of you granted anyone permission to your copyright. Therefore I respectfully request permission from Mr Cunningham, Mr Rinne and Mr Chance that I may download a copy of your original photos so I can experiment with my editing skills and attempt to achieve the results you did. I will never in any way display derivatives of your photos or give your photos to other people.
Thank you Mr Cunningham for posting details on engraving glass and for your additional post about the bug on glass. You inspire me to try engraving glass and you have already answered all the prep questions I had. You have shown with your groundhog that you can engrave more than one shade into glass with a laser. Simply marvelous work! I'm not letting you get away without a question -- With your experience engraving glass, do you think you could have engraved Mr Rinne's photo successfully on glass? My uneducated guess is there are too many details such as the cobblestone path that might turn into a solid blob.
Thank you Mr Rinne. I hope you can understand my English. I have never seen this type of photo engraving before. Your method of engraving is very fascinating. I look forward to challenging myself to see if I have the talent to edit the photo two very different ways and combine them together the way you did. I think this method would look lovely using an American Western landscape with a dirt trail and weathered barn.
Thank you Mr Chance. This is the first example I have seen of anyone using powder coat on a photo. I thought it would turn everything solid black yet I can still see all the shades of greys & whites as the original photo showed! Once again, I look forward to the challenge of learning how to edit the photo like you did to "dim the background" without losing the fine detail in hairs & whiskers. I have one question for you on the powder coat. Would you engrave the wood the same way if you did not use powder coat? Sorry to put you on the spot but I have one more unrelated question for you! You mentioned removing purple tinge caused by the camera. Would you explain how that was done? I too have photos with purple tinge and would like to fix them.
This last question is for ALL of you who entered the contest. Several of you mentioned using Photograv to process your photos. Do you think you could have achieved similar results for this contest without using Photograv?