Try desaturating and inverting the colors. That's basically what you paid for. A plug-in that takes advantage of features already present in GIMP. If you need to further adjust the levels use the color tool menu. It offers a lot more control over the end product. Play with the gama level. Look through the filters. You'll wonder why you paid for the shortcut...
I think using hot glue to glue your tiles down together on a sheet of 1/4" plywood in the pattern you want the image to be would be way easier then having to split apart the image before lazering, it would also eliminate the white border it's going to leave.
Thanks for all the info. It helps seeing these videos, At least gives us a good starting point for those of us that don’t have a clue. Lol thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for sharing your information with us regarding working with the device. I have not yet bought a device and I am really debating the issue. I have to purchase one and the way you pass the information only encourages me to replace the product I wanted to purchase with a device like the one you are working with. Thanks again for sharing.
Awesome Job man, I do have a question about your Josey Wales 6 tile picture. The very bottom center tile looked washed out? What does that? I get a lot of those like that and cant figure out why. Great job.
Is it possible to get the list of software you work with? And which one is free and which one should pay for them? You explain beautifully and clearly and how you make it look easy Is it really as easy as you show on UA-cam?
Awesome man trying to convince the wife to get the Ortur Master 2. I have more then a few 3D Printers and we do well selling Lithos during the Xmas season. Think our same clients would love the tile stuff! Have you thought about building an enclosure?
This is awesome, I was hoping to buy one of these and make some presents for coworkers. Is it possible to do a mug and what would I do to do so. Thanks again for awesome videos.
Strange question I suppose ... have you had some of these used as proper tiles, have you considered adjusting the image to allow for the grouting gap between the tiles? Or are people happy without the compensation? Thanks for assisting those of us new to the idea.
Love your stuff. You said to ask questions and here is mine. I have some old windows I would like to engrave wildlife seens on. How would I use the big gimping plug in for that or what do I do
Hey! Thanks much! I would do some experimentation and pull in the wildlife files into Image R and do a bit of testing on some scrap wood. There are some settings you can tweak to the get the best results. Best is Image R is free and very similar to GIMP. www.imag-r.com/
1.hey i have a 150w co2 laser what power settings would you recommend? 2. Does this particular technique also work on say a black tile rather than a white one
Thank you so much for your videos. Great production quality. Was wondering what the legalities of using the images is. I know we are technically editing them so they aren't the original files. Just wondering thank you!
I'm gonna start calling it the Scooby-Doo laser. I have this weird thing where I can read words backwards and Ortur backwards is Rutro. Think about it...
Please make a video with the process for burning images on painted wood or please tell me the steps because i cannot make it 😥 it keeps burning the wood no matter what settings for power i use or layers of paint 🤦♂️ thanks great video the greatest of all 😍💪
Wonder if this can be done in multi colors....i have seen 2 colors like the black and green but never anything more like if you wanna do for example a moose with a background of trees or something where you get green leaves the brown and black moose the dark cream antlers...the grey rocks...the white and silver of the paper birch? If it could do something like that I would be all in...do an entire shower with those types of tiles...
Excellent...what is your methodology to centre tile...so that all have same starting point...myself I use centre for job origin..I have a tile that has the centre marked..two diagonal lines Crosshair..and a small jig to hold tiles in exact spot
Could you in theory do 3 colored tiles using the tile burning method? by putting another color below the secondary color so for example white then red then black to make a mario tile?
I’m new to all of the laser engraving/burning. I have an xcarve that I’m fairly use to using but was wanting to expand to laser burning as well. Would the methods in these videos also work with a 7 watt jtech laser setup on the xcarve? Thanks for the videos bye, there are amazing.
Yep! I don't see why not! You are only burning off a thin layer of paint, so wattage on the laser can pretty much be anything. I have seen great work with a 7w laser. It's definitely worth some testing!
I saw your video awesome job by the way..& I would like to purchase but am so confused about which laser would be best to get to accomplish the same results . Any help would be appreciated...could I ask which laser you used for this video..7w,15w or 20w? Thankyou
How do you know where to place each tile so it's done right when burning? Got it, saw the frame option on your other vid. Thx. Appreciate the shared knowledge!
What I do when I wanted to burn only a single tile: 1. Place a 1/4-inch-thick plywood on the laser. 2. Create a 4-inch (100mm) square. 3. Tell LightBurn to center the square (step 2) on the center of the work area. 4. Engrave the square into the plywood. When you want to burn a tile: 1. Bring the image into LightBurn. 2. Tell LightBurn to center the image on the work surface. 3. Place the plywood back onto the laser. 4. Align the tile with the square. 5. Burn
I found out Lowes is 4 inch tiles and the tiles from Home Depot is like 4.25 inches. And in my area home depot tiles are .16 and lowes are .13 I think. Thats why the lowes tiles are a bit smaller actually are 4 inches
That's a great question! I have been using Da Big Gimpin plug in for a while and it suits my needs, but ImagR is a great free alternative! I could go for it! Do some testing!
Question, Is it posible to do a multi color image? Set every color in a different layer. Or would the laser burn trough Al the layers? My theory is, if it's only burning the black on the first pas it would burn the second color on the second pas and so on. Would take a lot of time to set the image up. But maybe it pays of for bulk sales?
Eastwood is so cool!! I’m having problems getting a dark image following your white paint instructions. I’m using the same machine as yours, ORTUR Lasermaster2, 15w. I started with some simple text, ran at 50 in/min and 100% power. My line spacing is .004” (264 dpi). It seems to be burning thru the paint and thru the tile glaze. The letters came out light grey color. Am I burning too much power? Does paint need to be thicker? Any help would help. Thanks in advance.
.009” line interval = 111 dpi. Does that sound correct? I saw you are using mm and I’m using in, but I did the mathematical equivalent and originally started with your preferred .11mm and converted that to .004”.
I painted the tiles wirh two light coats, and colors weren't engraving dark after they were already. So I went to add another layer on my tiles and they bubbled up in minutes after I repainted them? What could cause that?
Another great video! Quick question when I follow your steps even with the same image when I get to the final stage in Lightburn to set my interval to .11 my resolution goes to 9 DPI and the laser burn time goes to like 7 minutes a 4by4 tile. What I'm I doing wrong. Thanks in advance for any help guys. Great ideas
Problem solved with connecting. I had a problem painting the tiles. I first used white with two modest coats and left the tiles overnight. When I put on a colored coat (blue) the paint seemed to dissolve the first coat. Tried several tiles with the same problem. Do you think the colored coat was too thick? Steve
Thanks your video is great, i dont have that software but i uses the grbl one that came with the machine, do you have any suggestion regarding the line direction, is horizontal, vertical or diagonal, which one you think is better for engraving pictures like family one
Try desaturating and inverting the colors. That's basically what you paid for. A plug-in that takes advantage of features already present in GIMP. If you need to further adjust the levels use the color tool menu. It offers a lot more control over the end product. Play with the gama level. Look through the filters. You'll wonder why you paid for the shortcut...
Very nice! Love that you showed a couple of different approaches and alternative tools with examples.
I think using hot glue to glue your tiles down together on a sheet of 1/4" plywood in the pattern you want the image to be would be way easier then having to split apart the image before lazering, it would also eliminate the white border it's going to leave.
Thanks for all the info. It helps seeing these videos, At least gives us a good starting point for those of us that don’t have a clue. Lol thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much. I bought a laser engraver because of you. Thank you
i found you because of the resin 3d printing and got one. Now im going to have to get one of these because of you....thaaaaanks
Nice skills, and the opener amused the hell out of me.
This is cool! You can create a panel of comics on tiles!! for a room design
That's a great Clint impression! Genuinely made me laugh LOL
i love the intro, it shows you really put some thought to your projects. thank you keep them comming.
Cool project, I’ll give it a burn this weekend😎. Loved the edit as well!
Thank you very much for sharing your information with us regarding working with the device.
I have not yet bought a device and I am really debating the issue.
I have to purchase one and the way you pass the information only encourages me to replace the product I wanted to purchase with a device like the one you are working with.
Thanks again for sharing.
Awesome, That was classic Eastwood, you are the man.
You are the man, I'm tellin you. I can't stop laughing at Rasterbator, made my day.
man, this is the first video i've seen of yours and at first i thought you where the singer fish from marillion 😃
The dog and rooster at the end! 😂
LOVE me some Clint Eastwood!! That's awesome!
Godfather meets Eastwood 🤣 awesome!
Thanks good job.very entertaining. And I'm schooled today.good bless
Great idea. I'm sure there are some folks that would use those for a custom bathroom look. 😂
Love the intro! Subscribed!
Lmao 🤣 loved the "Dirty Harry"
I LOVE YOUR SHIRT!!!
Thank you so much for the ideas!! You have opened my eyes my man! Subbed and liked thanks for the tips n tricks!!
How long does it typically take to engrave one of these?
I just subscribed found your videos today im very interested in a desk top laser Thank you for the vids.
Excellent video....keep it up
Thanks for all the info and instructions great video! 👍🏻
Incredible Video!!!!
Nice mix, Outlaw Josie Wales meets Dirty Harry... :D
Great video glad I found it subscribed!
Thank you! Your videos are awesome :)
Incredible video
fantasic, if you just want a black design on white tile do i still need to paint?
That is one brilliant start to the video.LMAO!
Thanks for the info !
Very cool. thanx for sharing
In your first tile video for the Hulk you set power at 10%, why 20% this time?
Awesome Job man, I do have a question about your Josey Wales 6 tile picture. The very bottom center tile looked washed out? What does that? I get a lot of those like that and cant figure out why.
Great job.
great intro :-)..... Very nice video, thank you for sharing. The safety glasses you use... do the fit over presciption glasses ?
Yep! There are some great laser goggles that fit well over prescriptions glasses. The ones I use work well!
Is it possible to get the list of software you work with?
And which one is free and which one should pay for them?
You explain beautifully and clearly and how you make it look easy Is it really as easy as you show on UA-cam?
I had to give a thumbs up when the statement "I happen to have in my hand right now" came up.
The open itself was worth a thumbs up
That's awesome work, thank you for sharing.
Loved the intro!!!!!
Awesome man trying to convince the wife to get the Ortur Master 2. I have more then a few 3D Printers and we do well selling Lithos during the Xmas season. Think our same clients would love the tile stuff! Have you thought about building an enclosure?
I am selling a new Orthur Master 2 15w that I never even opened. Has been sitting in my shop for 2 months.
@@MrFdfdfdfdfdfd your prob in USA though eh?
@@TheRealKingDong Yes :/
@@MrFdfdfdfdfdfd ahh yeah shipping to canada would cost to much. Too bad I would of took it off your hands!
Hi great video gave me lots of new ideas I just bought a ortur master 2 pro, do you now what is the best safty glasses for that machine.
Great video with some great info! Is it possible to use octagon shape tiles in Rasterbator?
Great tutorial thabk you
Great idea to put all 4 tiles on the laser bead and burn one big image 😁
Seems like it would work fine until you exceed the size of your laser bed.
This is awesome, I was hoping to buy one of these and make some presents for coworkers. Is it possible to do a mug and what would I do to do so. Thanks again for awesome videos.
When you burned the client eastwood did you paint those tiles first?
Strange question I suppose ... have you had some of these used as proper tiles, have you considered adjusting the image to allow for the grouting gap between the tiles? Or are people happy without the compensation? Thanks for assisting those of us new to the idea.
Love your stuff. You said to ask questions and here is mine. I have some old windows I would like to engrave wildlife seens on. How would I use the big gimping plug in for that or what do I do
Hey! Thanks much! I would do some experimentation and pull in the wildlife files into Image R and do a bit of testing on some scrap wood. There are some settings you can tweak to the get the best results. Best is Image R is free and very similar to GIMP. www.imag-r.com/
@@3DPrintFarm i have windows from my 1888 home with wavy glass. I wonder if they will be a different than glass now. Thanks again
You're awesome creative
1.hey i have a 150w co2 laser what power settings would you recommend?
2. Does this particular technique also work on say a black tile rather than a white one
Thank you so much for your videos. Great production quality. Was wondering what the legalities of using the images is. I know we are technically editing them so they aren't the original files. Just wondering thank you!
Thank you.
You are the best !!!!!
Nicely done. Do you feel that there's a difference in resolution using the plugin vs imag-r?
Frankly, from my testing it's very close to being the same.
I'm gonna start calling it the Scooby-Doo laser. I have this weird thing where I can read words backwards and Ortur backwards is Rutro. Think about it...
Jinkies ....:)
Reading words backwards is probably just your OCD. Ever find yourself counting things for no reason?
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Interesting project
Thanks for sharing :-)
Please make a video with the process for burning images on painted wood or please tell me the steps because i cannot make it 😥 it keeps burning the wood no matter what settings for power i use or layers of paint 🤦♂️ thanks great video the greatest of all 😍💪
Great video thanks!
Question: how do you determine what interval we should use on our machine? Is there another video that explains that?
Make a wall mural of a weiner dog. How would you adjust the pixels for such a beast? Let’s say a 6’ high by 8’ wide wall.
Or a landscape of Tuscany?
Wonder if this can be done in multi colors....i have seen 2 colors like the black and green but never anything more like if you wanna do for example a moose with a background of trees or something where you get green leaves the brown and black moose the dark cream antlers...the grey rocks...the white and silver of the paper birch?
If it could do something like that I would be all in...do an entire shower with those types of tiles...
Amazing men 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Excellent...what is your methodology to centre tile...so that all have same starting point...myself I use centre for job origin..I have a tile that has the centre marked..two diagonal lines Crosshair..and a small jig to hold tiles in exact spot
Hi could you please advise the method of prepping the tiles for burning?
How would you do this same thing ín Inkscape with K40 Whisperer software usinng the K40 laser machine. You are a great motivator. Thanks.
Great video thanks
Hi, I was reading that the 20W is too powerful and result a bad grayscale : if possible I was asking your opinion.
Amazing!!
Would it be posible to do screenshots of the tiles to business purposes?
Thank you in advance!
Love your videos a lot , just got myself the same laser, could you recommend a laptop that’s affordable to start laser engraving projects
Could you in theory do 3 colored tiles using the tile burning method? by putting another color below the secondary color so for example white then red then black to make a mario tile?
you are the best 👏👏👏
You have inspired me to order one.......It will be here by the 29th of September. Thank You keep up the good work!
After some time and you have experience with laser devices, which device do you recommend?
Thank you for sharing
I’m new to all of the laser engraving/burning. I have an xcarve that I’m fairly use to using but was wanting to expand to laser burning as well. Would the methods in these videos also work with a 7 watt jtech laser setup on the xcarve? Thanks for the videos bye, there are amazing.
Yep! I don't see why not! You are only burning off a thin layer of paint, so wattage on the laser can pretty much be anything. I have seen great work with a 7w laser. It's definitely worth some testing!
must the paint to be used be solvent-based? does not work with acrylic or water spray paints?
good video the two programs you are using can i aks if they will work with the anycubic pro laser
Awesome Thanks!
Any reason you didn't use a 16x16 inch tile for this rather than the four 4x4s?
I saw your video awesome job by the way..& I would like to purchase but am so confused about which laser would be best to get to accomplish the same results . Any help would be appreciated...could I ask which laser you used for this video..7w,15w or 20w?
Thankyou
How do you know where to place each tile so it's done right when burning? Got it, saw the frame option on your other vid. Thx. Appreciate the shared knowledge!
What I do when I wanted to burn only a single tile: 1. Place a 1/4-inch-thick plywood on the laser. 2. Create a 4-inch (100mm) square. 3. Tell LightBurn to center the square (step 2) on the center of the work area. 4. Engrave the square into the plywood.
When you want to burn a tile: 1. Bring the image into LightBurn. 2. Tell LightBurn to center the image on the work surface. 3. Place the plywood back onto the laser. 4. Align the tile with the square. 5. Burn
Hi friend, but... the laser work at S1200 and power 20% on ceramic? thank you
I found out Lowes is 4 inch tiles and the tiles from Home Depot is like 4.25 inches. And in my area home depot tiles are .16 and lowes are .13 I think. Thats why the lowes tiles are a bit smaller actually are 4 inches
Yep! I always have to measure and never mix the tiles! Yikes!
Great idea ! Question : What is the difference between the Big Gimpin Plugin and ImagR ? Why should i buy the plugin for not really cheap 30 bucks ?
That's a great question! I have been using Da Big Gimpin plug in for a while and it suits my needs, but ImagR is a great free alternative! I could go for it! Do some testing!
@@3DPrintFarm definitively
Question,
Is it posible to do a multi color image?
Set every color in a different layer.
Or would the laser burn trough Al the layers?
My theory is, if it's only burning the black on the first pas it would burn the second color on the second pas and so on.
Would take a lot of time to set the image up.
But maybe it pays of for bulk sales?
Eastwood is so cool!! I’m having problems getting a dark image following your white paint instructions. I’m using the same machine as yours, ORTUR Lasermaster2, 15w. I started with some simple text, ran at 50 in/min and 100% power. My line spacing is .004” (264 dpi). It seems to be burning thru the paint and thru the tile glaze. The letters came out light grey color. Am I burning too much power? Does paint need to be thicker? Any help would help. Thanks in advance.
You may want to adjust your line interval down a bit. Something in the .090 to .011 range. See if that helps.
Thanks. You say step DOWN from my .004” to .090/.011. Do I understand that you mean step UP to .009/.011” (not .090)?
.009” line interval = 111 dpi. Does that sound correct? I saw you are using mm and I’m using in, but I did the mathematical equivalent and originally started with your preferred .11mm and converted that to .004”.
@@chrisyoung3780 My apologies. I meant 0.090 which would be 282 lines per inch. or 0.11 which would equate to 230.91..
When done with do you strip the paint off or just clear coat it?
thk you for video , can the laserburned tile used for outside areas ?
I painted the tiles wirh two light coats, and colors weren't engraving dark after they were already. So I went to add another layer on my tiles and they bubbled up in minutes after I repainted them? What could cause that?
Another great video! Quick question when I follow your steps even with the same image when I get to the final stage in Lightburn to set my interval to .11 my resolution goes to 9 DPI and the laser burn time goes to like 7 minutes a 4by4 tile. What I'm I doing wrong. Thanks in advance for any help guys. Great ideas
What does the paid plugin actually do?
Problem solved with connecting. I had a problem painting the tiles. I first used white with two modest coats and left the tiles overnight. When I put on a colored coat (blue) the paint seemed to dissolve the first coat. Tried several tiles with the same problem. Do you think the colored coat was too thick? Steve
if I buy a 15w master 2 now can I upgrade to the 20w by just buying the laser later at a 100.00 plus whatever price maybe
I'm planning on selling a custom wood plaque on Etsy and could be make 1-200 pieces per day. What kind of laser do you recommend?
Thanks your video is great, i dont have that software but i uses the grbl one that came with the machine, do you have any suggestion regarding the line direction, is horizontal, vertical or diagonal, which one you think is better for engraving pictures like family one