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Photos that engrave as well as they look on screen

Engraving a photo is no time for guesswork. Bernie brings together proven dithering methods, fine-grained settings and an assistant that guides you step by step to the result.

In detail

Import and adjust

  • Common formats PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, WebP and TIFF — 16-bit kept, at their original resolution.
  • Image adjustments Brightness, contrast, gamma, sharpening; presets included, or your own to import and export.
  • Mask and crop A shape limits the engraving, an inner shape makes a hole; crop, flatten, remove.
  • Replace without starting over Swap the image while keeping its place and its settings.

Dithering

  • Error diffusion Stucki, Floyd-Steinberg, Jarvis and Atkinson.
  • Halftone Adjustable cells per inch and angle, plus newsprint screen.
  • Sketch, threshold, grayscale From outline only to smooth gradients, in positive or negative.
  • Dot correction Makes up for the real width of the beam for accurate tones.

Tracing and 3D

  • Trace an image Preview, threshold, smoothing, area and sketch mode — or in batches, to SVG.
  • 3D slicing On galvo: a depth map engraved in as many slices as passes, with clean-up passes.

Photo engraving assistant

  • Five guided steps Focus, speed and power, interval, dot correction, then the image settings.
A photo of a mountain lake prepared for engraving in Bernie, with its image settings in the side panel.
Images & photos — in Bernie

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