I'm wanting to put on of my grandmothers recipes on a cutting board for Christmas. For those of you that have done this, do you convert the image to a vector file or do you just engrave the .jpg image directly onto the board? Thanks for the tips!
I'm wanting to put on of my grandmothers recipes on a cutting board for Christmas. For those of you that have done this, do you convert the image to a vector file or do you just engrave the .jpg image directly onto the board? Thanks for the tips!
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If it's a clean image, at the size I need, I just engrave the image. Wood is pretty forgiving--
Another option is to just replace the text with your own, and with the optical text recognition programs available, they'll do the typing
The LAST thing I'd try unless you have a GOOD trace program (Corel's is not IMO) it attempt to convert photo-text to vector art.
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Thanks Kev.
Universal 60w VLS6.60 w/ rotary
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Fab shop with South Bend Heavy 10, Bridgeport 9x42, 185a welder and a multitude of supporting tools/equipment
I had a really poor image in jpg format that woman sent me. blue lined paper that had been stained with what was probably coffee 2 decades before. Browned paper, and looked pretty bad. I played with settings and got a decent trace that I only had to rework one word. She wanted her dad's handwriting.....
Did three on ply for her, and she was happy. It wouldn't have engraved well from just bmp conversion.
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I use the trace in Corel frequently and have pretty good luck with it.
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Here is the finished cutting board (olive wood). Thanks for everyone's help!
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Universal 60w VLS6.60 w/ rotary
RayFine 30w MOPA
Corel X8, Photoshop
Fab shop with South Bend Heavy 10, Bridgeport 9x42, 185a welder and a multitude of supporting tools/equipment
Very nice Trey! They should be very happy with that result! (so should you!!)
Nothing wrong with that at all, looks great! So what 'procedure' did you settle on?
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ELEVEN - rotary cutter tool machines
FOUR - CO2 lasers
THREE- make that FOUR now - fiber lasers
ONE - vinyl cutter
CASmate, Corel, Gravostyle