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Basics

You may achieve your desired results with Affinity Photo, Adobe Photoshop, or another raster image editor. This guide is written for Affinity Photo.

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  • Conversion to Grayscale
  • Brightness
  • Exposure
  • Contrast
  • Sharpen
  • Dithering

Color Depth

Visual representation of grayscale depth engraving

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Engrave depth range is important for a user to understand. Please note the depth range of a project is separate from suggested material settings. Suggested material settings relate to the material used; however, the depth range indicates detail from how many layers your final project requires.

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  1. The location for adjustments is found on the right toolbar in Affinity, click the tab next to "layersLayers" title titled "adjustmentsAdjustment"
  2. If you do not see adjustments on your right sidebar then you may need to enable them by clicking "view" on the top menu bar >> click "studio" drop down menu >> and check "adjustments".
  3. While here I'd like to point out that through Affinity all your adjustments show as a new layer and have the option to toggle on/off as would any other layers. This is found via your "layers" tool bar

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