Need help with pic

Been trying this picture on basswood. No matter the setting it keeps washing out his face. Pretty sure it because the shadowing on his face. Does anyone have any advice. Doing this for a friend’s whose wife passed and this was their last kiss so he really wants this photo. Thanks in advance for any help.



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You can try lightroom or other applications on your phone to lighten the image. Perhaps making it a “pencil drawing” in those appls might help as well once it’s lightnened.

This looks like pass-through grayscale. It is very difficult to linearize gamma for laser burning.
Instead of grayscale - try to dither it.