This only happens on imported image files after being “image traced” and not on shapes or letters created in LightBurn. Yes the underlying original image is deleted. The image is burned in one direction for the correct number of passes, then reverses direction and redoes the burning in the opposite direction.
Show an example (.lbrn2)
Not sure what example you want to see. If, for example, I set the program to do two passes, it will do two passes, then it will reverse the direction of movement and do two more passes in that direction. It only seems to happen on images I have used the trace function to convert to a cut line. As of now I’m just setting the number of passes to half the number I really want to get the results I’m after. Lightburn 1.1 (latest version downloaded yesterday) Mac, OS 10.15.7 Catalina. Atomstack x7 pro.
can’t seem to upload the LightBurn file. Just says “processing” seemingly forever-several minutes for a 224KB file.
You said this only happens on traced images. Are you tracing things that are just lines? If so, you will get an outline of each line, like this:
The trace engine in LightBurn is meant to trace solid filled shapes, so it’s tracing the outline of all black areas it finds.
Thanks, this makes some sense. I guess it is doing two passes on each side of the writing so it looks like four passes total. Can you suggest a way to get photographed handwriting to a single burn line, at this time I only have photoshop and LightBurn. Do I need Illustrator or another graphics program to do this?
InkScape has the option to do a centerline trace, and it’s free. That’s the function you’re looking for.
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