sarah beck
04-17-2014, 11:28 AM
Hello,
I'm still having a great time playing around with different substrates and learning the best settings for each one. Still amazed at what the laser can do. Where I'm falling short is with what I can do! I want to engrave my own designs onto wood (and other substrates.) I have about a medium proficiency with photoshop, basic Illustrator skills and very limited Corel skills. My question is, I would like to take this line art and get it into the Lasercut software and engrave it so that it comes out looking basically the same as it does in this graphic.
287491
What would be the best way to do this? I have tried tracing it in Corel and then tweaking it in Lasercut with layers so that it engraves the dog grey and does shallow cuts for the white dog (see below). The problem is that when using the trace feature in Corel, for example on the white dog, it outlines both sides of the line, so it ends up sort of doing that line twice. Also, on the nose, or some areas that I would like darker it just outlines them. I can't do those nose lines as a different layer set to engrave because they are all just part of the dog's outline, so they are really one line. Maybe I need to weld lines? (Oh this becomes clumsy to describe!!)
So, am I best to try and treat this as a photograph when I prepare the file for lasercut? Or should I redraw my artwork and be aware that I need to separate the different parts of the drawing, like, for example, when drawing a nose, keep it a separate part of the drawing and don't let it touch the outside line of the dog? I have googled and searched the forums, but I can't seem to figure this out. I am trying to learn so much right now, it just feels like my head is getting bogged down and maybe I can't see a simple solution (if there is one). Here are the results I have gotten from tracing in Corel and then setting different layers in the Lasercut software:
287493
Thanks in advance!
Sarah
I'm still having a great time playing around with different substrates and learning the best settings for each one. Still amazed at what the laser can do. Where I'm falling short is with what I can do! I want to engrave my own designs onto wood (and other substrates.) I have about a medium proficiency with photoshop, basic Illustrator skills and very limited Corel skills. My question is, I would like to take this line art and get it into the Lasercut software and engrave it so that it comes out looking basically the same as it does in this graphic.
287491
What would be the best way to do this? I have tried tracing it in Corel and then tweaking it in Lasercut with layers so that it engraves the dog grey and does shallow cuts for the white dog (see below). The problem is that when using the trace feature in Corel, for example on the white dog, it outlines both sides of the line, so it ends up sort of doing that line twice. Also, on the nose, or some areas that I would like darker it just outlines them. I can't do those nose lines as a different layer set to engrave because they are all just part of the dog's outline, so they are really one line. Maybe I need to weld lines? (Oh this becomes clumsy to describe!!)
So, am I best to try and treat this as a photograph when I prepare the file for lasercut? Or should I redraw my artwork and be aware that I need to separate the different parts of the drawing, like, for example, when drawing a nose, keep it a separate part of the drawing and don't let it touch the outside line of the dog? I have googled and searched the forums, but I can't seem to figure this out. I am trying to learn so much right now, it just feels like my head is getting bogged down and maybe I can't see a simple solution (if there is one). Here are the results I have gotten from tracing in Corel and then setting different layers in the Lasercut software:
287493
Thanks in advance!
Sarah