if you check the passthrough option to enable it does that mean any Line Interval and or DPI is ignored when the Gcode is generated for the burn? Or does it actaully use what ever it was set for before the passthrough was clicked?
For example in the image below is the 0.110 ignored in the Line interval setting?
It means, quite literally, do not touch anything about this image - Each pixel in the image is sent directly to the laser (thresholded) with no other processing. If you make the image larger, it effectively lowers the DPI, making it smaller increases the DPI, because itâs sending the exact same dots in either more or less space.
The settings are grayed out because they are ignored and have no effect.
Thats what I thought, main reason I was asking was some people I saw spreading some misinformation.
Welcome to Facebook.
The amount of complete horsesh!t I see in some of the groups is just insane. Ask a question and get 30 instant answers, most of them wrong, but itâs up to you to figure out which. 
Itâs one of the reasons we moved to a forum - we have better tools here to keep on top of things, and can manage the content easier.
The group âLightBurn Software Communityâ in particular was started by someone out of spite when we took support off Facebook. He doesnât monitor or correct anything, and there are a select few users in that group who know what theyâre doing and respond well, but most are very âshoot from the hipâ, answering quickly instead of answering correctly. Almost no one even bothers to ask what machine you have before suggesting all the stuff you âneed to doâ.
Hah - I just looked. You donât need to âinvert your imageâ. Youâd be wasting that hour.
Lol, see what I mean, social media will be the death of us all.
So let me ask you this, can you recommend what settings to use for an image to get decent results pertaining to white tile method. At least what would be equivalant to using Imag-R or Big Gimpin plugin?
Should it be dither, or newsprint, etcâŚ
Not sure why youâd want to hurt your images like that. I find Imag-R looks really heavy handed and cartoonish. Gimpin plugin is basically Newsprint dither with about 2x your usual DPI setting (because of how the shading works), with a 5% contrast boost and about 2.5 brightness increase. I usually also drop the gamma a little, down to between 0.9 and as low as 0.5 if I really want to lighten the mid tones.
These are 3" wide, done with a diode:
The one on the left was grayscale, on birch ply, the one on the right is Stucki dither on basswood. The gamma setting for the one on the right was 0.5. Both images used âEnhanceâ of 100, with the radius set properly for the picture.
So using news print in LB is comparable to like a 1bit dither?
Almost all the modes in LightBurn are 1 bit. âThresholdâ is a simple black & white cutoff, and âGrayscaleâ is actually varying power levels. Every other image mode is a form of either dithering or halftoning (Newsprint is technically a halftone variation).
Ok, thanks for all the info, I am going to do some experimenting and see what I can achieve. I am trying to laser some white ceramic tiles using some of these methods people are posting and showing videos of results no one else is really getting. So there is that.
The Norton tile method works, but itâs very specific paints that do it (I donât recall which). A simpler version is painting the tile black and just lasering that off, with the âNegative imageâ toggle enabled so it burns white instead of black. Those are easy, but donât hold up as well as the chemical etch resulting from the Norton method.
Yea I am testing multiple brands of paint now including those used in some of the videos. I have done some black already and they turned out ok.
What does radius do, or are you referring to the corner radius in the shape properties. I cant find anything in the docs about it.
Enhance Radius and Enhance Amount work together to enhance the edges in the image. âAmountâ is the strength of the enhancement, and âRadiusâ controls the area of the effect. Itâs a little tricky to describe, but relatively easy to see:
Look in the 3rd column - all three pics have the same âAmountâ but the Radius increases with each row. The bottom row of pics has a very distinct wide âhaloâ around the edges that is less pronounced in the upper images.
Great post and response. You can definitley see the halo on the bottom row espicially around the white marbles
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