WIKI: Lightburn next level - take your skills a step further

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I’m going to create this topic more geared towards GRBL and diode lasers to share some Lightburn tricks (English is not my motherlanguage so I may not explain it very well or even be wrong so if you have any questions, just ask). Will be adding “my things (and maybe others)” as I remember/use them.
Remember in Lightburn you can get the same result in different ways.
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1.UI simple useful trick for our eyes:
Set your Font Size to 17

2. Stop burning your wood cuts.

Lightburn Super Trick

Hello to all. Instead of making multi-pass cuts in intricate details where laser burns the same segment over and over again and that sometimes leads to material burn… You can automatically make 1 pass cut plus 1 pass cut plus 1 pass cut and so on to let material cool a bit. Using Lightburn sub-layers like in the enclosed example. It take a few seconds more but gives much better results. At the end of the job start the job again (3 times in this case) or use cut job with 9 cloned sub-layers, …

3. Do you want to “Mask” this effect?

Adding text to existing picture

I need t engrave a picture on wood, but I need to add some text that I would like to be very light, to show up as if not engraved at all… How can I do that or where can I find directions on how to accomplish that, please… blessings, Bill in Atlanta