The COMPLETE Photo Engraving Guide Part 2 | Fiber CO2 UV and Diode
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- The follow up to our Photo Engraving Guide where we put the method to the test! Hey guys what’s up it’s Alex over at Laser Everything and today I’m going to be walking you through every step to actually putting the method from the first episode of the photo guide to use! If you haven't already watched the first episode I would highly recommend going back and watching that one first - there's a link above. We get some good results and some bad results so this is a great real world test and shows off exactly what challenges you'll have to overcome to get great photos with your laser!
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Thanks for taking the time to produce this information. I learned so much.
Glad it's helping you!
Thank you so much for this great info. I had just started with a Fiber and was frustrated that my photos where not coming out. Both part 1 & 2 were amazing and helped me dial in the settings
Yet another great educational video series. Thank you Alex, and Kyle, for this very informative work. I truly enjoyed these videos, as I have all of your videos that I have watched. For anyone who is working with lasers, I highly recomennded jumping into the Laser Masters Accademy. Value beyond your imagination and the opportunity to meet and share ideas and information with some wonderful people.
Thanks so much for the very kind compliment Robert and so glad you're enjoying the LMA as well! Appreciate your support!
Good to see (in the video) all the work you guys put into making something "work" and not just come onto the video and badda-bing-badda-boom...it works the first time like so many other videos from other U-toobers. You're trying to explain the changes you're making when things don't go as expected and it helps us a lot. Good job. Keep up the good work!
I use LaserGRBL, but I used all the theory and did the prep work in photoshop. You're awesome for making this videos, they were sooo helpful. Thank you
That is awesome! Glad the video helped you! This method will work on any laser or software ;) just good science!
Love the lesson you done it’s amazing each time you doing something I learn something new like how you show the problem if any you get helps me big time been following you for the last week or so and I getting to understand a lot more about all this stuff so much to take in never done anything like this before the way you help people it’s amazing so a big thank you
You are so welcome, glad you're getting value from the channel Terry!
Thanks amazing educational video . Kudos and big thanks 😊
Glad you liked it! :D Thanks for watching!
Loved Firewatch! Very unique and fun game.
So fun right? Definitely left an impression on me.
Awesome content, thanks
Appreciate it! Most welcome!
I state that the diode we're using is the Laser Master 2 Pro, but it's actually the Ortur Aufero Laser 1, there's a link in the description :P
I was looking for exact THAT info since I want to dial in my iKier K1 Ultra settings for engraving. It has 33-36W laser beam power (160W electrical) so I want to try to adjust your settings to its speeds and power. Thank you for that info! I guess I just linear adjust your settings to mine like 12x the speed and 12x the power or so.
Very informative video, thank you. After watching I rushed out and got a microscope to start analyzing my burns. I have a K40 Co2 that I upgraded to a 50W tube and using your method, I worked out my line interval to be nearly 0.3mm (nearly what Kyle used) but my image lost all its details and came out quite pixelated.
When you have a dot size so large you need a large area to mark with this method otherwise yes you'll notice pixelation. A lot of engravers will hack around with contrast and edges to give the illusion of higher detailed images in small areas on co2 lasers. You could also look at compound lenses which supposedly help. Also feel free to join our facebook group or discord server for advanced support and we'll take a look, links in the description.
Goog job Alex! Learning by doing...
Glad you liked it Yasser!
Lovely and detailed. Looking forward for more especially photos on Stainless steel
Coming soon! Thanks for watching Rohan!
Hi Alex@@LaserEverything , is there a follow up on Stainless steel using Lightburn with a Mopa laser? I am getting ok photos but nothing spectacular and I do not know how to improve on them.
Love the repitition of the process.
Thank you!
only 2 words... THANK YOU
You're most welcome :)
I've watched both videos as I really want to do photos, but on painted canvas. I'm having loads of issues so far. I'm not finding a lot of the detailed advice you provide here, plus I keep finding diode videos and I've got access to a CO2 laser. Any chance you have made a video on doing canvas, or can do one in the future?
Awesomeness!
Thanks for watching!
Hello, first of all thank you for this awesome video. You have helped me in several occasions and I have learned many things of you.
In this occasion i have one problem, and is that i dont find the option called "Ximagic". Did you know where i can get this function?
They are plugins so they'll have to be installed. Great software, you can get it from here: www.ximagic.com/
Can a program like Inkscape be used in place of photoshop for preparing the image for EasyCad and fiber?
Thank for for taking so much time to put together & share this informative series. (100+ hours!?!? D@mn bro, seriously, thank you!) One quick question regarding the positive & negative versions of the Firewatch image on brass. I noticed in the positive image the gamma was set to 1.9, and in the negative image it was "dropped" to 3.08. In both cases, it looked like the number was being increased. Does photoshop show a minus (-) sign for the number when it's dropping? Feel like I'm missing something because it looks to me like in both cases that number was increased. Also, thank you for all that you do for the LMA community. Proud member checking in!
Incredible amount of information. Thank you for that. I am having a hard time getting photos to come out on Black Granite. Do you have tips using 90watt co2?
Is there a reason why all the settings would change going from one size to another? ( engraving the picture small then enlarging it will throw everything off?)
Thanks in advance.
Robert
It may depend on the size and quality of the photo, if perhaps you are expanding it beyond its original DPI it may have trouble scaling up beyond that. Another reason is the laser dot has a physical size, (based on the laser and source type, any beam expanders, and lenses the beam passes through - so naturally some lasers will be capable of a smaller dot for higher resolution at smaller physical sizes) so if you are making the engrave cover a smaller area, it can only physically fit so many dots in a given area to provide resolution for the image. If the dot has a large size, and you squish the dimensions of the image down, it may be reducing the dot value so low you might not be able to identify it and lose too many details.
love your work from iran
Thanks for watching! 🙂
nice video sir . i have question i have 50wats max fibra laser marking machine but company provide smart studio software . i don't want that software. i want EZCAD 2 software . we want to change any laser control card to installed EZCAD2 software
What laser control card do you have currently? It could be as simple as swapping out the drivers for the normal ez2 or ez3 drivers if you have a jcz controller. if you don't have a jcz controller check out my ez3 to ez2 downgrade video. It's not exactly what you're looking for but we talk a lot about swapping cards and it could provide you with the information you need to swap controllers.
I’ve been doing photos using the greyscale option in Lightburn instead of Jarvis and I feel like the image is a lot smoother and doesn’t show that dither pattern? Was that something added later and that’s why these videos don’t cover it?
Which version of Lightburn do I need to use with my Fiber laser?
When it's released you'll use Lightburn for Galvo - expected to release some time in the next month or two.
Thanks for the videos, very very informative and useful. Especially I am such a beginner and rushed into buying 2 machines.
1 C02 laser (Wainlux Laser EngraverJL3 40w ) - I haven't really used it, I find it quite difficult and I want to engrave on stainless steel, which this machine doesn't
1 Fiber laser (MR Carve M1) - I like this one so much, but unfortunately, it has its own software, SeaCAD.
Do you by any chance have any tutorials on SeaCAD?
I am trying to engrave portraits on stainless steel military tags, and it works, but the quality is so bad and shines differently depending on the light...I was hoping you've made some videos which I haven't found yet. THank you!
I don't currently have any SeaCAD specific tutorials but SeaCAD and Ezcad 2 are virtually identical in a lot of ways. I would start with our Ezcad 2 crash course and see if that can get you pointed in the right direction and get your machine tuned in a bit: czcams.com/play/PLoBR3k35202YA629ri6CXhjCmL1E5-ARz.html
hi there, thank you for you wonderfull video. The most detailed version wich helps me a lot. I have an EM- Smart lazer. I hope you can help me with my next problem. I did evry step of you.. and it also worked with the lazering on metal black plate like you showed. But when i try the same document to print on a 14k gold round plate it doesnt work. I tried to cut also in a circle etc.. didnt worked... can you help me with that problem?
Please join the facebook group or discord server for this kind of support and upload photos of the results your getting, machine specs and settings you're using and we'll do our best to help you. Links in the description.
@@LaserEverything thank you ill add on facebook
cant i just edit the pic in lightburn and (rightclick > save processed image) then go to ezcad ?
Absolutely, if you have LB for a different machine you can definitely use it that way we show it in some other vids!
Hello sir can you do more video on negative image engraving
What about a plastic pick plate for a guitar white over black
Awesome video thank you, im struggling to find this z magic plugin though, can you point me in the right direction please
dont worry, i was reading the transcript which says Z magic which is what i was googling but looked on bigger screen and its spelt Xi Magic lol
I see you saw it's spelling was weird lol
@@LaserEverything i did and thanks again for this wonderful video, i am in a few groups on fb and did a very short abbreviated version just before this released, explaining how people need to learn to see by eye how you an image will come out on the laser and if there are too many blocks of white or blocks of black, which will overpower any sort of gradient
Great video Alex. it is really working for me. Question is the dot width selection only on the beta?
Dot width adjustment is available to everyone right now on the latest version of lightburn, but fiber/galvo support is only available in the beta. If you have a diode or CO2 you can definitely take advantage of DWA now though.
@@LaserEverything Thank you for the response. Is it possible to do a video with this process for clear acrylic?
Absolutely I can look into that I'm sure we can do something
@@LaserEverything Thank you Alex. You are the Greatest. I love what you are doing. Keep the Great work!!!
Aye aye!
Any time I go to use the library on an image, it grays it out, and I can't use the material settings. Is there a reason why?
Settings for photos and settings for vectors have different parameters and requirements so they are stored separately in LightBurn. Write the vector settings you want to use down, then copy them into a fresh parameter and save while you have a raster image selected and it will save it as a raster param instead.
What are the settings for a fiberlaser20w moport
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Wow. Lightburn really kicked ezcad's ass if you ask me. Nice comparison! :)
We agree!
What do you suggest for engraving ? CO2 or Diode ?
Diode if you're on a budget, CO2 if you're trying to start a business - though they both have qualities that make them both worthy of use in a professional environment.
4AM! We appreciate it but you should put yourself first. Your head is going to spin lol
Unfortunately that is not the life of youtubers lol 😂