Trying Whitewashed Pine for Photo

With untreated pine could never get good results engraving photos
With this pine I generously applied Lacquer thinner then lightly sprayed on flat white paint
Waited 2 minutes then rubbed in rubbed off excess paint like a stain
Eleksmaker 2.5 watt
1200 mm/min 65% power 339 DPI
15 x 15 mm
Lightburn Stucki dither
105 minutes
cropped and coverted to B/W in Paintshop Pro


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I like it, ā€¦ incredible how productive you are :+1:

I am so trying this in 3ā€¦2ā€¦1ā€¦

Looking forward to seeing your results James.

It will take a few tries Iā€™m sure. My 100w CO2 laser is tough to turn down far enough to get good engraving on soft woods and such.