I’m hoping over the weekend to try cutting an image into layers, 3D printing some different height focus blocks, and trying to do a depth of field kind of thing. I’ve zero experience with image editing to try cutting certain parts out, but I’ll give it a try. Maybe something 3 layers, boat in front, ocean in middle, background city at the back.
I think the biggest problem so far is heat on parts that are solid black, thus keep the laser on full instead of pulsed dithering. (you can see the deep black parts in the second one, if you look close, it’s a fracture in the acrylic) So if I wash the image out slightly to prevent pure blacks, I think I can stop the internal fracturing of the acrylic.
EDIT: Ehh. A little overlap along the bottom, and only did two layers since I have absolutely zero experience with photo manip. (I literally just used windows paint 3d to magic select the boat, save the background and boat separately, then tried to align by hand in Lightburn. I’m ashamed).
But, there’s 4mm difference between depths.