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How To: Grandma's Recipe Cutting Board
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Instruction
Information
My Mother-In-Law provided me with hand-written recipes from her mother and father. I edited and engraved these on two boards for her and both on one for each of her children as a Christmas Gift. Below is the step-by-step on how I was able to get a clear engraving from an old hand-written recipe.
Instruction
Step1: Edit original picture
Using whatever image editor you are most comfortable with, crop and edit the recipe to make the text stand out from the background. I find that minimizing saturation, maximizing contrast, and then adjusting brightness makes the best results.
Step2: Upload and Trace
Add the picture to the canvas, then select Edit and Trace.
Again, this will take some troubleshooting to get right. Move the sliders up and down in different combinations in order to get the text to be outlined as good as you can get.
Tip: You can do this multiple times and combine the best parts of each recipe. For example, sometimes I could get the top smooth but not the bottom (or the opposite), so I would do it once with the top clean, once with the bottom clean, then delete the fuzzy parts of each and combine.
Step3: Engrave
Set to engrave and optimize settings for your machine. Cut.
