Hi All, I am trying to engrave a scroll design on steel. I would like to have the outside border of the scrolls engraved along with some finer details inside the scrolls. All the while having the rest of field outside the scrolls a color close to black, the background for contrast. I have tried 2 different layers, 1 for the bg solid and 1 for the scroll design, but all I get is the bg running straight across horizontally through the scroll and filling the scroll. I would like to have the bg stop at the scroll lines. How can I do this?
Thank you,
Jim
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this. I think I could use just 1 layer, black and set it to fill mode
I highly suggest that you perfect the image on cheap, readily available material rather than on steel. Amazon cardboard (anyone else have some of those??) boxes make for awesome recycle friendly test material.
Thanks for the replies. Still do not understand some of it, but have learned a couple of things. I stumbled upon the main solution the other day and that was the fact that you have to duplicate the cutout. So if I want to not engrave over screw holes in a knife, I have to make a circle around that for a boundary and then duplicate that circle so it acts like a cookie cutter. Not intuitive for me, but I bet that some people here it was.