Originally Posted by
KannaKraft
Hi everyone,
I'm working with a Boss HP-5597, 200watt and trying to dial in good practices for photoengraving, mostly engraving on baltic birch ply for now. I'm using quality, hi res, black and white photos, creating halftone bitmaps and the only two issues I'm having are as follows:
The dust/soot from engraving is falling in the "blacks" and lightening them, destroying my depth, contrast and range of value. When I attempt to clean the dust out, I inadvertently clean out all of the color/value and am left with a washed out image.
I am also losing detail to the image either being too dark over all or too light over all but no amount of correction seems to fix this. This second issue is not nearly as important as the first but I'll take advice if you have experience.
I appreciate all of your input--as long as you aren't here to just tell me I don't know what I'm doing.Constructive advice only, please!