@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy I must be doing something wrong, When I right click on a clip art image then attempt to copy image into LB "paste" isnt an option. ???
I can't tell you how fortunate I feel I found your tutorials!!! I am very happy with the speed of your tutorials as well as your calm voice, talking clearly and I am convinced I will succeed!! I have been a Silhouette user for many, many years so I do feel I understand things better because of that knowledge. I do have some questions that I will get to you and see what you have to say!!! Thanks so much!!! Trish!
Yet again absolutely brilliant. What makes your tutorials different and better (imo) is the fact that you go down to the basic levels explaining every action, you don't assume any knowledge and for us newbies these tutorials are totally invaluable. Also you explain everything extremely clearly and so it all makes sense. I received my laser a week ago and as yet have barely used it as I have wanted to get to grips with the basics etc. Last night based on one of your tutorial I created a speed and power test and it worked, the text was a little burnt but I know why because I have learnt a lot from your channel. Thank you once again *****y excellent !!!!
انت مبدع ورائع جدا لثد شرحت شيء صعب وكبير في سلاسه وسهوله ، حقا شكرا لك وانت فنان حقيقي . لقد تعلمت منك الكثير وانا الان اطبق ما تعلمته منك ، شكرا لك واتمنى لك التوفيق
I'm a longtime member of our Ortur FB group, and I gotta tell ya...this is the MOST VALUABLE tutorial I've done...and that includes all of Lightburn's tutorials! LOL! Drive on Hobby Guy...
Phenomenal video Rich!! You are already an awesome teacher...but somehow you are getting even better! I learned so much (like control D for duplicate!) and other shortcuts I didn't know of!!!
Just like to say a big thanks watching your videos is help me a little bit because I'm not very computer wise but the way you illustrate it is fantastic I do appreciate that well done big thumbs up for me mate
Thanks Rich. You sure explain things very well, making them easy to understand - even tho I have to watch them several times that belongs on me not you. You are THE MAN!!!
Thank you so much for this video! I’m very new to the laser community and lightburn and I could not figure out how to move the layers to a different position! I would change the colors of the images themselves! Ugh! I can’t believe how easy the fix was when you showed it in this video! Thank you again! Very informative video!
thank you for this beautiful video and explanation step by step and very instructive, I hope so many more will follow, but everyone knows that you put a lot of time into preparing the video but we will continue to support you in every area. just keep
I am a Dutch guy and English is not my normal laguage but you cannot imagine how much i take from your video's. Thanks for the great work and the well explained video's. I am learning on the fly from them. Luckily i am a CBc router and 3D printer as well so its all kinda familiar but Lightburn has many secrets and you are teaching me these steps. Thanks again.
*Glad you like them Ronald!* I'm a one-man show, so it takes me a day or two after posting the videos to do the closed caption translations. Sorry for the delay!
Love your videos. They are really helpful. At first, I was a little intimidated by my laser cutter. Thanks to your videos I know I can make things on it.
thanks for this video its made me really think about that I'm doing now instead of panicking trying to find something to print I was really struggling but this helped me a lot
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy I have to say its a lot easier now I have watched the video and I have been practicing for the last couple of hours and I have managed to make a lot of art work for the family I just hope it works out when I hook it up to the ortur pro when it arrives thank you for a great video
First of all, thank you for sharing all your tips and tricks and for making these excellent videos. I'm from the UK and a newbie to laser cutting and engraving. And I would say without the kind people like yourself, that at least 50% of us would just be sitting there and wondering where to start and what to do. So thank you once again ( and I think if you ever came to the UK, then you should be given a knighthood from the queen).🙂
Excellent video, the Lightburn is similar to Vectric pro in what it can do, it is just learning where the tools are located. i really am getting a lotof tip and solid information from your videos.😄
Thank you Gladys! I try and explain things as I learned them, step-by-step. My goal with the channel is to never skip any steps, no matter how boring it might get 😎 I don't want to waste people's time with projects they can't complete on their own by skipping steps, as in most RU-vid videos.
Thankyou for that great and very educational video. You have a new subscriber now. I didnt find out how to get the Christmas Ornaments file for free but I didnt mind paying for them. Still a good deal. Im from West Monroe by the way. Keep up the nice work please.
*Thanks for the sub neighbor!* These ornaments are available for free for my RU-vid viewers in my Forum: lahobbyguy.com/bb You have to be a member Robbie and logged in to see the Member's Only Download section. In the Lightburn Art topic, the libraries are on page two.
Thanks Rich very imformative video, and easy to follow, But I will go back and like you said watch an do at least 3 times to get the hang of it. I learnt from you the other day how to build the Art library properly and now that has saved me a bunch of time with pictures. But also cost a bit a time getting all my art work into it, but totally worth it
I think that your videos are very informative and I thank you so much for putting them out my only question to you is if I need to look at them and what order should I do that
I print and mail about 200 3d printed ornaments each year. Love the ease of Lightburn. Question: can this be save in a graphic type file that can be used to make a 3d g code file? Nice explanation, as usual.
Thank you. I am just getting started with a laser and Lightburn. I have a cnc and use Vectric for it. Looks like Vectric and Lightburn are very similar in use. A few variations, but the same general approach. Not sure how familiar you are with Vectric, but am wondering like in the case of these ornaments, could I do the center cutout on the laser, save the program and and pull it up in Vectric to do the full piece cutout on my cnc? I have heard in my “studies on RU-vid” that a lot of cutting with a diode laser will weaken the power over time. Not sure if that’s correct or not, but at least in smaller pieces like these, it would be nice to have the grisp corners that the laser would produce that the cnc couldn’t do even with a small end mill, but the outside cut wouldn’t be affected.
I really don't know Vectric Bob. But I do use Lightburn on my CNC. I set it up with Grbl M3 in the settings, and then I do my design and export the G-code to an SD card and use it to run the job on the CNC.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Ahh, ok. Figured there was a way to pull it off. When it comes to programs and that stuff, I guess I’m kind of like you and videos🥴. Sometimes I get it and sometimes I don’t. Thanks a bunch for the reply.
Would love to see a video (or even some advice) on a good left/right limit on doing a test on various materials. Just starting out, I downloaded a few different test patterns to try on tile, oak, and poplar. The ones I downloaded charred the wood for more than half of the settings and did nothing to the tile for about 1/3 of the settings. I have no issue doing some tests but I’d rather not do 100 mm/min - 9,000 mm/ min, 10%-100% power for each one (that’s an extreme example, but I hope you know what I mean).
I have two videos on creating vector and raster test burns and downloads. You can change the layer settings to whatever you want to achieve a good test. Or you can create your own following the instructions in the video Lori.
i am trying to have a design background and i have a loge image with text and a picture i need to add on top of the design. but, i dont want the design image to be cut behind the outline of the image. i need to do the opposite of masking but, i cant figure it out.
Once I create a design can I use it in laserbox? Is it possible? I created one and now I would love to send it to laserbox and I have no idea how to do that. I hope you can help me or someone here knows how to. Thanks in advance!
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy thanks so much. I am new to lightburn and laser machine and I just don't understand lightburn filling numbers. 🤦 I just came to your page to see if you had a video about the correct speed using lightburn and I saw this answer. 😁
Just curious, I wanted to put some text in the middle, but I run into issue with letters like "i" which is totally disconnected from the rest, how do you manage this?
I have a question. I noticed you copying images off of Google without visiting the site where the image was. Most of those images have a cost to them. So I can copy the image without going to the original site where it’s at and paying for it?
You cannot copy and use the images in their original format Debbie, because they may have an implied creative content copyright. However, I did not use the image itself. I traced and modified the images into vector graphics and altered them. So the graphics I created were not the original image and not subject to copyright.
You've probably heard me say in my videos that my settings are not going to matter to anyone else. No two lasers will use the same settings. The variation in power, diode age, type of material, heat, humidity and other factors determine the settings. You have to do your own testing on a sacrificial piece of each material you use to dial in your settings. I have two videos showing how to do it.
I didn't use anyone's work, it was for reference only, and the final traces were distinctly different than the original which was deleted and not used. My minor in college was graphic art, which included 2 copyright classes. There were zero copyright strikes in this video. Think of it this way, if you drew an NFL logo by hand, (without using the trademarked name) by looking at a photo of it, it's not the same logo and not subject to copyright. Making something similar is not infringement, especially for personal use. The law is pretty clear, and I did make substantial changed to the images I used for the demonstration. Almost all of the images I use are hand drawn on a tablet while looking at a sample.
I'm a designer and just wanted you to know you can't go stealing images off Google and then using them to make your own to sell, and then say someone else can't sell the files that you stole from Google. Be careful of what you are doing by telling people to go off Google to grab images...and yeah you used different trees and snowflakes but the original idea was someone else's so be careful stealing stuff!
I didn't steal anything from Google. I used a file as inspiration and created my own, deleting it afterward. Just like an artist uses things for their inspiration. Stealing would be using the actual file.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy You made a derivative work from the original .png file that you copied/pasted. You copied the placements verbatim and then used other .png files created by other artist (trees and snowflakes) to make a new work in which none of it was your own. To make it your own and to get the "inspiration" you would have needed to draw your own snowflakes and trees by hand. Maybe your trees had more branches and your snowflakes were more elaborate...but that would be YOUR work because you drew it yourself without taking bits and pieces from files. The point is that is not your tree nor your snowflake that was created by your own imagination. It is a slippery slope, but as an author and artist myself, I think it's important to tell people that you can't just go taking images off the internet that were created by others, take bits and pieces to copy from and then say it was your own work. Then to turn around to sell those files is copyright infringement if someone could prove that you used their images in your end product. To make this legit, you would have needed to obtain a LICENSE from the website (such as freepik and creative market) and ensured that license allowed you to create derivative works to use commercially. UNLESS it's in the public domain then it's fair game.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy I really enjoy your content. But I have a huge issue with this video. You say you aren't stealing the art off google. The second you trace it YOU HAVE STOLEN IT. You are encouraging other to steal. You can justify your illegal actions how ever you want, but theft is theft. I you looked at an image and thought "I like the style of that" and then proceeded to actually draw a similar image in that style, with out tracing their work, then you can say yours was inspired by the image you looked at. Not copying the file but just the image is like taking a photo copy of the work and proclaiming that you made the copied image. A thief can always justify their actions, right or wrong.
Great video as always but I don’t like your casual ignoring of other people’s copyright. You don’t necessarily have the right to just use an image from Google image search for your own purposes.
I'm not ignoring copyright! The entire purpose of this video was to promote not infringing on copyright which so many people do! The images I used had no watermark and were used only for demonstration purposes. I created my own replica of those images and taught how you can do the same. It is okay Rafe, to paint your own version of the Mona Lisa!
I don't understand how you can call it a powerful design tool. What I can see here is that you don't have even any control on the size of what you are drawing. Or does the software have it but you are not using it in this video? At least I personally couldn't find it.
@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy But I am talking about entering the accurate size that you want (in mm). With control handles everything is estimation-based. That width and height box should do it. But still it is not very convenient (as you cannot enter the length while you are drawing the line. It seems that with those boxes you can just edit the size of the line after you have drawn it based on estimation).
I usually like your videos. But herein, you misunderstand what “copyright” means in legal terms. “Substantially similar” is what a lay jury determines in a copyright issue, and yours wouldn’t pass muster. The consequences, if pursued, are *stark. Beware means be aware.
I really enjoy your content. But I have a huge issue with this video. You say you aren't stealing the art off google. The second you trace it YOU HAVE STOLEN IT. You are encouraging others to steal. You can justify your illegal actions how ever you want, but theft is theft. If you looked at an image and thought "I like the style of that" and then proceeded to actually draw a similar image in that style, with out tracing their work, then you can say yours was inspired by the image you looked at. Not copying the file but just the image is like taking a photo copy of the work and proclaiming that you made the copied image. A thief can always justify their actions, right or wrong. The title of this video "Design Graphics in Lightburn Like A Pro!" is highly misleading. You are not teaching any one to design but rather how to steal. A "Pro" gets paid for their work. A "Pro" doesn't need to steal some one else's work, they can create it them selves, perhaps with inspiration from another piece.
Okay Jay... the video was for demonstration purposes. And no copyright was infringed on. Every piece of clipart I used for the video was completely changed into something else and used as guides only. Traces used as guides are not intellectual theft if they're not used.
