I have a picture that I want to engrave on a piece of wood for a Christmas gift. I edited the picture in Inkscape by applying a feathered edge before exporting it then imported it into lightburn. Picture comes over looking like a perfect match to the one in Inkscape. However when I preview the image using the grayscale process the feathering goes away and I am left with just a sharpe edge. Not sure why this happens or maybe there is something I am missing or not doing correctly. Need help please.
Ensure you have ‘shade according to power’ selected in the preview…
Good luck
Have that turned on. Just edited and added a picture of my issue.
Can you do a screenshot of the layer settings?
You’re sure it’s set for grayscale?
The feathering adjustment is lost on LightBurn import, it’s a feature LightBurn is working on as far as I remember. Topic has been up recently.
Thanks for the update. Hope they can get a fix soon.
It won’t be a fix, it will be an extended function of possible image formats. That’s what I meant.
If you import your image as a “normal” picture" you should retain the fade effect, but with a frame.
From what little I can see of the screen the picture looks like it is being brought in as an image, not a masked SVG file.
I think what’s actually happening is that the feathered edge is being accomplished with transparency. LightBurn interprets transparently as all on or all off and will not try to flatten the alpha channel to normalize the grayscale. I suspect you’ll need to make an 8-bit grayscale for this to work properly. You may be able to do this by adding a white background in Inkscape the size of the photo before export but can’t recall the exact behavior.
I first tried using the image in inkscape coupled with a mask on a separate layer but get the same effect in lightburn. Will try your suggestion and see how it behaves. Guess this is a learning curve.
Used the white background and it did what you stated. Showed the feathering but also the frame around the white background. Will continue to explore. Must get this done right. thanks for your help
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