A question for the experts and years of experience I've seen in this forum. I've been trying to engrave a picture of one of my dogs into a lacqued piece of cherry. Attached below is my result.
The question is this the best I can do. I feel that I should be able to get a better looking result. I started with a picture at 200dpi and converted to grayscale and then processed using photograve, selecting cherry as my material and using all the defaults.
My system is a ULS 60W, I used settings of 100pwr 60spd ppi=500 ID=2. I also applied a liquid black shoe polish which helped alittle.
I've attached my grayscale as a jpg as there is an upload limit on the .bmp file sizefile, the filename is begin.jpg. The photograv output file is new_1_16_pge.bmp. The final result file is result_72.jpg.
I have also been trying various black&white setting to dither the image in photoshop & Corel, but so far have gotten the best result from photograv.
I hope that I supplied enough info in hopes that someone might help me improve my final result.
Thanks to all for any comments,
-pete