Photo Success
Jun. 7th, 2009 02:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikGetting decently photo-quality results on anodized aluminum with a CO2 laser is more complex than I thought. Thanks to some new software and a good bit of experimentation I think I've finally figured out the right workflow. The results were better than I expected. I figured that I'd need to do larger (small sign-sized) pieces to get enough resolution due to how the anodizing reacts, but I was happily wrong.
The pictures are of a two-sided, full bleed, anodized aluminum business-card. It's about as thick as a stiff piece of cardstock. It takes four minutes per side to run. The good part is those photos are unedited. I put them in straight from the original jpegs and ran them through my new workflow setup -- no muss, no fuss.
Now, on to perfecting the settings for acrylic, wood and tile! Anybody have some photos they need custom etching of? :)
The pictures are of a two-sided, full bleed, anodized aluminum business-card. It's about as thick as a stiff piece of cardstock. It takes four minutes per side to run. The good part is those photos are unedited. I put them in straight from the original jpegs and ran them through my new workflow setup -- no muss, no fuss.
Now, on to perfecting the settings for acrylic, wood and tile! Anybody have some photos they need custom etching of? :)
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Date: 2009-06-07 06:20 pm (UTC)-J