I have a photo that I would like to convert to separate objects I want to be able to engrave parts of the photo at a time. Is there a way to do this?
You won’t be able to directly select objects within an image file since images are really just a set of pixels on a flat plane. There’s no “shape” data within the image.
In order to do what you’re hoping you’d ultimately need to convert the flat raster image into a vector drawing.
A couple of approaches:
- Use LightBurn Trace tool to vectorize the design
2a. Then use the vector components directly to burn as you like
2b. Use the vector components to mask the various portions of the image and burn the masked raster image data
If this is the highest quality version of the image that you have the trace may not work well so may require a bit of cleanup.
Alternatively, you could hand recreate the design if you’re sufficiently ambitious.
Ideally you could get a hold of an original vector version of the design. That would be the cleanest and most expedient approach.
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Just for the fun of it, I ran the bitmap that’s on the post through a vector conversion program. Typical of these programs (except for LightBurn), it softens some things that should not be softened. The castellations of the sides are an example. The circle at the top center is severely distorted. I’ve attached the file imported in LightBurn, which has been arbitrarily set to fill to show the colors, while adjacent to that is the LightBurn trace results, using default settings.
In both cases, manual adjustment is indicated.
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