Text up front on picture engrave

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

@gixxerboss

does the background fill it just ploughs over the text

If the elements of this artwork are vectors, have a read through the following for how LightBurn uses boundaries to determine the start and end of fill areas.

How do I invert (negate) a vector engraving?

If you want to invert a vector engraving (Fill layer) you need to add an outline to it. Think about what happens when you scan a circle, compared to the letter ‘O’. The inner ring of the O toggles the fill. If you add another shape (like a square) outside it, it negates the whole thing: [image] And a slightly different example, this time done by changing the outer line around the design to a ‘Line’, instead of leaving it as part of the Fill layer: [image] In the case above, the design alr…

If the artwork is a bitmap image, you will need to do this editing outside LightBurn as we do not currently provide any image cropping, clipping or masking features required to produce the desired output.