Photo Success

[tugrik]

Getting 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? :)

Comments

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Oh! Neat. :)