Mirror

[Ray Rouleau]

Hello Creekers!
So here I am again stuck with yet again another Corel issue. I would like to replicate the attached on a mirror, but I'de like to engrave say the Blue parts, paint then do the red portions and paint. Any ideas on the best ways to proceed.
Rgds
Ray

[Dave Johnson29]

So here I am again stuck with yet again another Corel issue. I would like to replicate the attached on a mirror, but I'de like to engrave say the Blue parts, paint then do the red portions and paint. Any ideas on the best ways to proceed.

I can't open the file in v10 to see, but if they are already colored, move the red to another layer then click "no print" send blue to the laser.Then swap No print for the layers and send red.

[James Stokes]

The way Dave said is pretty much right if you are doing it on the back. That is how I would do it.

[Frank Corker]

If I was doing it, ungroup all. Collect all the blue together and group. Then all the red together and group.
(Do the blue, first because the red is going to change colour and will not look as pure.)

I would suggest you use a spray can of both colours, make sure that they are compatible. However it will stink. You can use acylic paint and still get a good finish but no smell.
So click on the blue group and choose 'selected', engrave and paint. Let it dry. Then choose red and engrave and the paint that, make sure you allow a slightly more powerful engrave on the red because you have to go through the blue overspray as well.

[Tim Bateson]

That is just how I done it. I separated the graphic and painted it orange, then engraved the rest of the photo and painted black.
I can't find the picture I took of it. This weekend I'll try to get the mirror from my son and take another picture. The attached picture is the original.
The cute kid is my grandson.

[Tim Bateson]

Found the picture. This was a tricky one. Not only due to the multi-colors, but the mirror was very old and taken from their home during a renovation. It didn't laser very well. I offered to use a new mirror, but they wanted the nostalgia of something old reused in their home.

[Tim Bateson]

Ray, That was an easy one.

[Frank Corker]

Nice job Tim. Something that they will keep forever.

[Ray Rouleau]

Thanks Tim, I see what you did, and your right that was pretty easy!

[Mike DeRegnaucourt]

Found the picture. This was a tricky one. Not only due to the multi-colors, but the mirror was very old and taken from their home during a renovation. It didn't laser very well. I offered to use a new mirror, but they wanted the nostalgia of something old reused in their home.

Hi Tim!

Good job on the photo. I noticed that it looks like you might have forgotten to flip the picture prior to engraving on the back of the mirror. At least there was no text on the little guy's jersey, if so then it would've read backwards. I've done the same thing myself in the past and luckily it was a picture without any text so only someone with a sharp eye might have noticed the person's part in their hair would've looked like it had jumped to the other side of their head. Luckily it was for a relative.

[Tim Bateson]

Hey Mike, good to hear from you. You caught me. I did forget to flip it.

[Devon Jones]

what did you do to edit the picture? photograv? i have ver 2.11 and the materal you can select for it is limited are there settings you would recomend?

[Tim Bateson]

I'm at my day-job, so I'm not sure what my settings were. I doubt I used PhotoGrav (not a fan).

I do recall that the settings for this mirror were more different then any other I've ever done. This was an old mirror that didn't laser well at all. I'm not sure, but I think some of the old mirrors have real metal in the back coating. A hammer and chisel would had been more efficient in this case.

[Devon Jones]

yes i was using the gold method to do all of my photos. so i started to play with mirror and some times its dark enough to go through the backing and sometimes its not at all. then i also have the problem where i lose the depth or demintion of the photo with glass so im a bit stuck