This is the second part of my tutorial on lasering photos onto glass. This example came from a seminar I did with some of my customers. This photo is approximately 50 years old. We had to get rid of some creases to get it looking at least good enough for the laser machine. Download the sample file

Remember that this is only the first step in this process. You need to get your power and speeds set properly and watch this video on how to laser glass – How to Laser Engrave Glass

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One way to increase the perceived value of your product offering is to include a clients logo with that product. If you want to impress your client and provide them with the best looking product you can do than offer to reproduce there logo. Not only will they be impressed but they will be more inclined to pay you top dollar for that product. The one problem with offering to reproduce a clients artwork is that the artwork that they supply is not in either a good format (ie traced) or may be in a bad quality web format (gif, jpeg, png). In this tutorial well will look at tracing a one colour good quality logo. Available in X3, X4 and X5. See our video on CorelTrace

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This is a file that was given to me by one of my customers who needed some help in the CorelDraw print merge. The original file I got had all the lines in one column so I suggested that the customer fix it up so that there were 20 columns of names. This excel file had over 5000 names. Because there was 20 names per plate Corel created 287 plates with 20 lines per plate. I would not want to enter this text in manually. Check out the CorelDraw print merge video

One of the problems that people have when they are resizing vector graphics in CorelDraw is that some of of the outlines when made bigger lose there squareness at the edge. This is not a bug in the software but is a preset in the software. You can change this in the miter setting in the outline setup up or make it a default in the styles setup in options area.

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I decided to do a separate help fie that looks at the formats of text that you can use for the print merge function in CorelDraw. Typically most customers will be supplying you with text from either Microsoft Word or Excel. I will look at these two programs and show you how the text needs to be formatted. If you are getting information from other programs probably a CSV (commad delimited format) is the best

When you are doing laser engraving or sublimation (sawgrass driver) you need to turn off your colour correction and work in the RGB colour space. In this article we will address this setup.

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