Hi I'm a 73 year old woodworker and as my username suggests I do strange things like deciding to enhance my woodwork with laser cutting and engraving. I am a nonDigital Dinosaur and would appreciate some help. (Believe me it was a major achievement just trying to join this forum.) I am asking you guys as SWMBO said I have to achieve results soon as I am long past my alloted 3 score and ten years.
Here is my request.
I have a friend who makes small folk art type signs with small cutouts of pigs, chickens, wine glasses etc. in mdf. She has given me some tracings of her cutouts, in ballpoint pen on paper. I have scanned these into a png file at 300dpi and then import them into Coreldraw 2017 and try to convert them into hairline outlines I can use to cut out the images on a laser in mdf. I have ( I think the word is "unspecified" results.) If someone could suggest the steps to do this I would be internally grateful. I would like to get some results from this laser before I have to convert it into a boat anchor.
don quixote said:If someone could suggest the steps to do this I would be internally grateful.
If you upload a PNG file we can see what you're dealing with. Then we can propose a solution.
you need to convert picture into a set of vectors. This is called - tracing. Any version of CorelDRAW can do this. Import picture to CorelDRAW, select this image and use Trace Bitmap from the menu (Bitmaps-Trace Bitmap).
Jeff
Thank you for your help. At this stage of my digital initiation, I'm not sure that I'd be able to achieve this. (Was going to try a smiley emoji here). Hopefully soon. If you ever venture to this wonderful part of the world, I would to buy you a beer.
Bruce
Shark
This worked a treat! So simple. I think I was confused after watching a U-tube video and they were talking about using fills and all sorts of things. KISS is definately the word. I also improved the quality of the pallpoint traces I scanned, and that helped a lot. Thanks mate. Likewise with the beer.