Larry Bratton
03-31-2007, 6:36 PM
Thought you guys might want to critique my first attempt at lasering a photo onto black marble. This is a memorial plaque to be sent to my cousin's widow. Cancer got him two weeks ago.
The photo was scanned from a good color studio photo. Cropped and adjusted in Corel Photopaint. (scanned at 600dpi originally then adjusted to 300dpi to send to Photograv). Dropped into Photograv, autoprocessed using the blackmarble.prm. Then imported into the Corel Draw layout, no resize, just placed where it was supposed to be.
When I lasered it, I lasered the photo first at 300dpi setting to match the photograph. When that finished, I dropped the photo out of the layout, and ran the text at 600dpi. I applied ArmorAll prior to lasering to make the white pop out more. (it worked, I ran this prior on a piece of marble that had a pattern that I didn't want to send but keep for myself and their was a noticible difference).
Anyway, there it is. Comments appreciated. (The photo of the post is not too hot, it's hard to photograph that stuff) I was also kind of miffed because the marble had grain or whatever you call it right on my subjects nose in the picture, but, such is life.
By the way, thanks to Joe Pelonio for helping me via e-mail. I appreciate it!
The photo was scanned from a good color studio photo. Cropped and adjusted in Corel Photopaint. (scanned at 600dpi originally then adjusted to 300dpi to send to Photograv). Dropped into Photograv, autoprocessed using the blackmarble.prm. Then imported into the Corel Draw layout, no resize, just placed where it was supposed to be.
When I lasered it, I lasered the photo first at 300dpi setting to match the photograph. When that finished, I dropped the photo out of the layout, and ran the text at 600dpi. I applied ArmorAll prior to lasering to make the white pop out more. (it worked, I ran this prior on a piece of marble that had a pattern that I didn't want to send but keep for myself and their was a noticible difference).
Anyway, there it is. Comments appreciated. (The photo of the post is not too hot, it's hard to photograph that stuff) I was also kind of miffed because the marble had grain or whatever you call it right on my subjects nose in the picture, but, such is life.
By the way, thanks to Joe Pelonio for helping me via e-mail. I appreciate it!