How To... Painted Tile and Halftone

So I just today spent all morning doing my first photo engrave on my nova 51. It came out alright but I’m glad I was directed to your page by Brian. Learning tons. Right down to my tiles I used to do with my Glowforge would sometimes pull up and crackle my paint when I sprayed it with clearcoat. Not always just sometime. I’ll have to try the acrylic. Thank you for taking the time to make these informative tutorials.

Amazing work. I’m just learning and getting started so I’m watching all of your great videos.

So glad I found your channel. I've been experimenting with tiles for a while now and having zero luck but the way you go in depth about your photo editing software was something I haven't found in other videos. Thanks so much for making such a great video, can't wait to watch your other videos to see what else I've been doing wrong. lol

Thank you. Been playing with my laser for a few months now and keep bumping into my knowledge hole with respect to image processing. About to embark on phase 2 use of my machine - router and contour carving - and I'm not going to be able to fake that. Excellent video, well produced with calm and thorough focus. Well done. Liked and subscribed. I'm sure I will binge your other offerings. =) lol.. Think I'll give the tile thing a shot as well, bonus. =)

Man fantastic video! Your methods are too notch. Thanks for doing this.

the images quality far surpass other videos I've seen today on this.

excellent video. new to this and that was easy to understand . started a picture while watching and can already tell the difference . I also just subscribed. thanks

Very comprehensive video. Thanks!

Great tutorial as always.

Wowwww!!! this is another level.

SUBBED!!! Amazing work

I watched it carefully just to copy your settings and when you said not to I was like nooooooooooo lol good video

GREAT JOB, GREAT INFORMATION

Thanks for the easy to follow video. I followed the video but ran into a issue, when I saved the tile at 4x4 it open in lightburn 4100 inches. any idea on what i may of done wrong.

If what you are saying Lightburn resamples the image then it would output at whatever you set the dpi to in the halftone setting. Yes increasing the dpi in the photoshop file will give you a better resolution to create the dot shape in bitmaps but it’s resampled in Lightburn. Effectively you will never get anything above the dpi set in Lightburn halftone, although I inadvertently set the dpi to 1000 and tried to run the job and it took 4x longer. In commercial printing the rule of thumb was 2x resolution to that of halftone screen but the raster image processors that created the final plates were capable of 2540 mm plus. If you had a way to figure out the file size of the final output image you could prove this but I don’t know anyway to do that.

Very great video and information as getting color on my tiles has been a challenge for me I either get color with hardly and image or I get an image with no color. However im still a little confused. When you first brought your image into lightburn you have negative image and pass through on. When you get into the different engraving methods I noticed that negative image is turned off. So do you engrave with negative image on or off? I’ll keep trying but that is a question that’s been in my mind. I use lightburn but also use Gimp as my photo editor Thanks

Can you also use airbrush acrylic paints and then clear coat after burning? Tons of great info in here and I'm glad I found this, you're video is super comprehensive and easy to follow!

thx man big experience god bless you

Just have to say I was your 1,000th like on this video😂 I couldn't handle it saying "999"... Seriously though, truly liked the video! Those look awesome!

this painted method will work on any material, wood, ceramic, metals, plastics and glass, basically if you can paint it you can laser it