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    I have never tried a Lithophane however I would like to make the attached picture of my 9 year old handicapped daughter into lithophane for a Christmas present for the wife. Could you please make suggestion on the settings I will need to avoid the normal beginner mistakes. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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    Go to the Carvewright web page and under Support look for Tips and Tricks then look for Lithopane (Lithophane) Carving 101 – ISSUE 16 January 2009. It will give you all the settings you need.

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    You need/should to use 1/4" material so the first thing is to set your board thickness to 0.250", when the pop up window comes up select proceed. I am guessing you are using designer 3.xxxx, if so set the board texture/view to lithopane so you can view how it will look.

    In your mpc you have the image inverted and it will carve as a negative image so remove the inverted setting. Set the depth to 0.180 and height to 400.
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    Thank You for you kind advice

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    I have done a few lithos and the first advice is, your picture is a little fuzzy you need a good quality picture, I like to use a 1/32 bit it brings out more detail... using a .25 thickness material for the lithopane .180 for depth and 450 for height. You will need a holder for your .25 lithopane that is .75 in thickness. when you start your project to carve use a board use a board .75 x 10" x 17" and set your lithopane in it and tape it down to the board. and as Floyde said invert your pattern
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    Going to make ths attempt this weekend will post results if all goes well and thanks for the litho holer will save me some presious time

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    Well here's the very first lithophane, thanks for all the advice. Click image for larger version. 

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    That came out great. Wonderful job.

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    That did turn out great... at what the material cost you do't want to make a mistake..

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    This is my last litho that I did, white objects are hard to carve sometimes, so I took the picture inside to help calm it down, besides taking a picture of a lighted litho is difficult too.
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