I've been working with the software to design patterns... The software can import pictures, graphic elements, clip art, and a lot of other forms of digital artwork. It converts those images into a grayscale format. It does this by taking the pixels and changing them to different levels of white and dark. These differing shades of light and dark are then converted to depth. the darker the pixel, the deeper the depth.
While trying my hand at scanning images and converting them to patterns, I found that I needed to do some manipulations to the scanned images. This especially true of clip art. Clip art is strictly black and white and so the carving would turn out to be very exaggerated. What I need to do is find a way to adjust the images and change or rather swap colors.

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Finally unpacked my new CarveWright cnc wood carving machine!!! it arrived the other day but i wanted to wait till i could make a video of the whole process. i wanted all of you to share in the fun and excitement along with me.

i apologize for the fuzziness that crops into the video every now and again. i didn't know that was happening until all the unpacking was over with and then it was too late to re-do the video.

i know what i did (stand to the side and then the focusing didn't know what to focus on), and will not make that same mistake again... but hey, this is a tutorial, right? so i guess we ALL learn.

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