1-Touch Photo

[Kevin Baker]

Scott -

Yeah, I got two pieces as well... just as you describled... where do you get your marble from?

Thanks again for all your help and input..
Kevin

[Scott Shepherd]

I got those pieces from a tile shop, but they were for a person that sells granite.

[David Dustin]

We received our copy of 1-touch and I am very pleased with the results.

The speed of processing and ease of use are quite good (and I'm a tough judge).
David

[Bill Cunningham]

Steve -

I'm using 1-Touch to produce the results you see in the attached pics. When I look at your results, they seem to have a better white/black contrast. My results are more gray than white. Are my results a laser power/speed setting for do I need to adjust the photo (brightness/contrast) prior (or after) I run it through 1-Touch. The marble is a sample from LaserSketch.

Thanks,
Kevin

Laserskech marble wont turn white, because it's not really marble..
Real marble turns very white, and will brighten up with a second pass.. Don't try that on the lasersketch, it won't work.. Real marble also requires more power 30-40% speed, 100% power where the LS stone etches with 75-80% speed, 100 power. You can use the same setting for the abs. black granite as the LS marble .. The LS stuff renderes photos very well, but they need to have whitener added.. Thats why the also sell the VanSon white ink..

[Ed Lang]

I found this interesting.

http://www.natural-stone.com/testmarbleiq.html

[Dave Johnson29]

I found this interesting.

Er...

NEGRO MARQUINA _____
ROJO ALICANTE _____
BIANCO CARRARA_____
TRAVERTINE CLASSICO_____
CREMA MARFIL_____
EMPERADOR_____
CHANDORE_____
JERUSALEM STONE_____
ROSATTA_____
How many of the above did you classify as marble?
You may be surprised to discover that only one of the above materials is true marble (see answers ar the end of article). The rest are all limestone, except for Ubatuba, which is a granite.

Ubatuba is not on the list!!!!

[Dan Hintz]

Er...
Ubatuba is not on the list!!!!

Man, I thought it was just me!

[Lisa Higginbotham]

Does this only work with a ULS machine or does it work with Corel so I can send it to my Trotec?

[Randy Walker]

Ok ... some more messing with 1 Touch. I imported the pic below into Corel photo paint and adjusted the contrast and brightness levels to bring out some dark areas and dampen down the areas that were too light. Then I brought into 1 Touch and began trying the filters until I found one that had all of the contrast about equal. For this pic that was the "microsurfaced plastic" filter. I saved the adjusted pic and closed the program. In Corel draw I opened the pic and printed as usual. In the Uls driver I used "wood - medium density" and printed it.
The picture is on birch plywood. The first one is one pass. The second one is two passes. The third one is three passes. The photo's don't show how good these turned out. The quality is excelent. In fact the first one turned out so good I thought I might get a 3-D effect with multiple passes. I was right. You cant tell in the photos but the second and third are very nice 3-D relief. Eventualy I intend to gold leaf them.
I don't have any experience with any other programs so I can give no comparissons. In fact I have only had my laser a few months and consider myself a NU-B. But I can tell you that I am impressed with this programs quality and simplicity.

Good stuff

Randy Walker

The pics are worse than I thought they would be. I lowered the resolution on my camera to keep the file size down. Sorry

[Trevor Watson]

Does this program only optimize for ULS lasers or could it be used with
Xenetech by saving out going through corel .. Already use Photograv 3 and find I get better results with Adromeda Etchtone lol ..

Trev

[Randy Walker]

I was able to save to my computer and close 1 Touch, then open the processed file in Corel. My guess is that it could be opened with any compatable progran but I don't have any other programs to test it with so can't speculate about that.

Randy Walker

[Mike Mackenzie]

One touch is tuned for the Universal systems (speeds, pulsing, ramping, powers, Len's, Etc.) Even though they give you an option of saving the file it probably won't give you the same out put on different laser systems.

Even Photograv must be configured for the laser system it is getting used on.

[Scott Shepherd]

Mike, any updates on when they will have wood and granite materials in the database?

+/- 12 months?

[Mike Mackenzie]

Scott,

I wish I could answer that!

[Scott Shepherd]

I did give you plus or minus 12 months Mike