Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
As soon as you bought your diode laser I feel confident that one of your first urges was to mark something with an image. The major problem with this is that few hobby laser users really understand the principles of digital graphics and even fewer (including expert grapic artists) fail to understand the difficulties associated with "burning" their images onto a material with a beam of light.
LIghtburn's array of professional graphic manipulation tools is amazing but usually misunderstood and misused. They may make you feel like a graphics god as you fiddle with the sliders but they teach you nothing about the underlying digital graphics philosophy. The reason for this session is to make you aware of the sublties of digital graphics, the frailties of your visual system and how that weakness is exploited to create a reality that does not exist.
I have discovered a method of perfect laser image replication that copies the pixels in an image onto various materials. Hence, 1 image pixel=1 pixel sized dot, is the simple but perfect formula that circumvents the requirement to "prepare the image for engraving" However, this relies on YOU understanding the capability of your machine and making the resolution match it. Few understand this principle, instead they create an initial unacceptable charred product and then by by a process of adjusting parameters refine the end result to "acceptable"
As soon as you bought your diode laser I feel confident that one of your first urges was to mark something with an image. The major problem with this is that few hobby laser users really understand the principles of digital graphics and even fewer (including expert grapic artists) fail to understand the difficulties associated with "burning" their images onto a material with a beam of light.
LIghtburn's array of professional graphic manipulation tools is amazing but usually misunderstood and misused. They may make you feel like a graphics god as you fiddle with the sliders but they teach you nothing about the underlying digital graphics philosophy. The reason for this session is to make you aware of the sublties of digital graphics, the frailties of your visual system and how that weakness is exploited to create a reality that does not exist.
I have discovered a method of perfect laser image replication that copies the pixels in an image onto various materials. Hence, 1 image pixel=1 pixel sized dot, is the simple but perfect formula that circumvents the requirement to "prepare the image for engraving" However, this relies on YOU understanding the capability of your machine and making the resolution match it. Few understand this principle, instead they create an initial unacceptable charred product and then by by a process of adjusting parameters refine the end result to "acceptable"
