TRY THIS AT HOME Photoshop-lasercut pics

[bob]

Hi Just thought as its Christmas ill share this with you....
To get cood quality pics from a Hi Res JPEG to a good lasered image via Photoshop.
Get your image>Mode>Grayscale
Discard colour ? (click o.k)
Mode >Bitmap
(output 1600pixels per inch CHANGE if you want (normally 300-1200))
Method> halftone Screen.
Frequency 80 Normally 50 Angle 45. Shape round
Save as BMP

The image may look pants when imported to lasercut but see what happens , if you can get better LET ME KNOW (i doubt you will without photograv)
Send me some pics
Hope that gives you something for christmas apart from the excuse to make pics of the rellies.
Allthe best Bob

[Daven]

I did similar using gimp - this was my first project.

original picture:-


result after getting rid of background etc:-





Dave

[bob]

GAWD Thats Fast .....
Well impressed Photoshop seens to have more details but is gimp a freebie ?

Thanks Bob

[Daven]

Yep gimp is free, not mastered it yet but I also use Inkscape also free oh and Doublecad

Dave

[bob]

Cool thanks for that,
Anyone used Sketch up with lasercut or Newlydraw???
Thanks Bob