Epilog - Corel Draw Settings for Photo Engraving on Wood

Epilog - Corel Draw Settings for Photo Engraving on Wood

         
  1. Open your photo in CorelDRAW, then resize and crop it to the final size you want to engrave.
    1. Note: In the final step of this process, it’s very important not to change the size of your photo once you convert it to a black-and-white 1-bit photo.
  2.  With your photo imported and selected in CorelDRAW, open the Resampling Palette by selecting Bitmaps/Resample from the drop-down menu.
    1. In the Resample Palette, change the DPI to 600, and then click OK.
  3. Gamma Adjustment Filter: The Gamma filter allows you to reveal detail in the low-contrasting areas of a photo without significantly affecting the shadows or highlights.
    1.   With the photo still selected, open the Gamma adjustment palette. Select Effects/Adjust/Gamma from the drop-down menu.
    2. In the Gamma Palette, enter the value 3.5, and then click OK. This will brighten every value in the photo and bring out detail in the dark or shadowed areas.
  4. Unsharp Mask Filter: This filter accentuates edge detail and focuses blurred areas in the photo without removing low-frequency areas. Low-frequency areas are areas in a photo with subtle or smooth tonal changes—a good example is a portrait photo.
    1. Select Bitmaps/Sharpen/Unsharp Mask from the drop-down menu, to open the Unsharp Mask palette.
    2. In the Unsharp Mask palette, enter these values: Percentage 500, Radius 20, and Threshold 6, and then click OK.
  5.  Sharpening: The Sharpen filter accentuates the edges of the photo by focusing on blurred areas and increasing the contrast between neighboring pixels. The result creates greater contrasted edges in the photo.
    1. Open the Sharpening palette by selecting Bitmaps/Sharpen/Sharpen from the drop-down menu.
    2. In the Sharpen filter palette enter these values, Edge Level (%) 100, check the box for Preserve Colors, and Threshold 70, and then click OK.
  6. Open the Convert to 1 Bit palette by selecting Bitmaps/Mode/Black and White (1‐bit) from the drop-down menu.
    1. With the Black and White palette open, select Halftone for the Conversion Method, select Line as the
    2. Screen type, enter 0 degrees, and 100 lines per inch, and then click OK.
  7. The only thing left is to print to your Epilog Laser system.
    

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