 We just made this Wednesday Adams fan art using our omtech polar laser and the print and cut feature in light burn And we'll show you how we did it right now What is up welcome back do you like to do it builder make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week I am so excited. We finally get to use the DTF printer and our laser to do exactly what I bought the DTF printer to do We're gonna do a print and cut in light burn using our polar laser We've been planning this type of project for months now We did a little preview of this back in November But the whole point of this DTF on MDF is to be able to sell these make these crafts to sell at our craft shows In our booths So this is an opportunity for us to do that and we're gonna do it using some Wednesday Adams fan art It's gonna be really cool. Okay, it's got a great idea for this one, but this is just a test We're not selling any copy-written materials. This is just a test Step one we're gonna prep our image and by that I mean we're gonna download our image and add some registration marks We're gonna use Adobe Illustrator. I Removed the background from Wednesday We went over how to do that last week and then I made a moon real quick and then I added some registration marks Now the registration marks are easy to make I made a circle and then I'm going to use the line tool to draw a line I'm gonna line these up Actually, let me make the circle a little bit smaller Just gonna scooch this down a smidge And then I want the line to be a half an inch long, so we'll just make this point five All right copy paste now I have two lines I'm gonna turn this on its axis hold shift and I'll go on the 45s Drag this line over to the other line in circles. Select them all I'm gonna make sure they're aligned vertical aligned horizontal and I'll group them That's how you make your registration marks So I made two of them and I placed them on either side of the image Now let's export this as a PNG Step two, we're gonna make our print. We're gonna print our print We printed it on some DTF and we're gonna attach it to some MDF It's a lot of acronyms I mean you can really put this on a board using any method if you have sublimation I got little sticky stuff on the top of that. You could probably sublimate it Yes, you could use sublimation to get your image onto the board. You can use A little, what is it, Mod Podge? You could use that method. We're just using DTF here That's what we have and that's what I think will turn out the best She's looking like a beaut Step three, we're gonna make all of our cuts Now that we have our image on a board I'm gonna take this over to our omtech polar laser and cut it out I'll meet you in lightburn Inside lightburn, we're gonna go get the PNG that we just exported out of Illustrator We'll open it up I'll right-click, do an image trace And we'll just continue to up the threshold until it encapsulates All of the designs. It just gives us an outline. Oh, wow. This moon is a real pain in the butt 255 this is gonna back it down like one pixel. All right, and that's it Now you'll see that it created a trace of the image on top. That's hard to see Let's go ahead and make this a different color. Let's do red because we're gonna cut it anyway All right, and you'll see there is my image trace. We no longer need this image a delete Now I don't want all that moon Gook and stuff all those little crevices so ungroup it I'm just gonna try to select the items that I want. Let's back out I just want the hash marks or the registration marks the moon and Wednesday, let's select all this other stuff and delete it Let's Rotate this 90 degrees So it fits in the bed Put it back in the bed Now let's resize let's reset our image. So We're looking at our whole bed now here are registration marks. Let's change these into a duller color Let's use green and we're not going to output these. We're not going to engrave or cut these so Let's deselect output Now we'll move our laser head To the first way actually let me go ahead and refresh this bed So we can see what the image looks like actually. Let me go put the board in So we can actually see what this looks like One more refresh There we go All right, let's select everything control a Just kind of line it up. Now you'll see that it doesn't actually line up It's because the camera is a fisheye and the further you get from the middle The less aligned they are so we'll just kind of align it, but we're not going to use this to align it We're going to use this to align it. This is a red dot pointer So I went ahead and made a red dot pointer so that we can actually do this print and cut The right way using light burn So it fits right in there and it lines right up So now let's go ahead and move the laser head into place We'll kind of into place Actually, let's uh go ahead and set our focus height too So we're going to use these little buttons over here on the move tab To move the laser head around this will move the z axis And the x y axis. So I'm going to lower it down a bit. Let's check it Oh look at that perfect first try All right, now we're going to use the little arrows To move the laser head around until that red dot is perfectly centered in that x They're just going to tweak it. You know, I set my speed down And my distance down low so Hopefully It just moves a little ever so slightly All right, man. That's looking pretty good. So we'll select the whole thing Then we'll go up to print and cut Wait First I have to uh Yep, first I have to go ahead and group Group the registration marks control g. We'll select everything control g to group it I'll go back up to laser tools print and cut and we're going to set the first position It's all set now. Let's go ahead and move our laser head down to the second position This will move it to wherever I point and click All right, we're going to swap to the other side now And we're going to use these little arrows over here to move that until it's dead center again Just tweak it tweak it Keep tweaking. Let's go up a little bit Oops too far and All right back the other way a little bit All right, that should be it one more Yeah, this could be a little tedious But it's worth it over to the right just a smidge All right, it looks Looks pretty good. All right, I'm thinking that's looking dead on now Yeah, that looks All right, that looks great. So back to light burn and we're going to set the second position We're going to go back to laser tools one more time print and cut and align output to targets Now this will kind of adjust everything that's getting cut to these two marks right here And we'll just go back to layers and cut Check my let's check my speed and power All right, looks good Now do not forget to remove your red dot pointer You don't want to burn that up. So let's get rid of that And we'll go ahead and hit start She turned out we're just going to add some starbomb thick And kind of glue everything together We're going to glue the web. What are you doing that? Can it be useful or just want me to stand here and look pretty? Just stand there and look pretty babe. I don't think you can add glue to her Well, I think you're going to have to add it to her and let it stick to the web where it can It won't really matter because everything behind her won't be visible Yeah Make sure you put a little bit of glue on a plate and rub it around on it and then put it around the web. Yeah, there'll be a lot of places it'll stick Looking awesome Got tight on the painted it and the base a little better. I was worried about that There you go She looks good. She looks amazing Did you know you could get all of our files behind the scene content and even a kim and garret after dark podcast As well as monthly zoom calls access to a secret facebook group And we'll even send you one of these fancy t-shirts all for 20 dollars a month It's the best way to support this channel. So join us over at patreon.com Profit This is looking great and I could probably sell this for 25 and 30 bucks Yeah, this was relatively inexpensive to make so I would say you're about five dollars in wood Or maybe four dollars in wood and about a dollar 50 so five 50 or so In materials it's about a dollar 50 for that transfer the ink and the glue for the dtf printer But again, you can use sublimation or mod podge or anything to get your image down on the board. So You know inexpensive materials Well, I think it really sped up assembly time. There wasn't barely any painting. Yeah I mean there's no way I would have been able to paint this kind of detail Or if I cut up the image and a bunch of little pieces and painted them and glued it all back together I still don't think I'd be able to get this kind of detail Yeah, this detail is exactly why we wanted that dtf printer so that we could do something that we couldn't paint But still make that image pop off plus it also Hopefully if we do enough of these will reduce some of our production time. Yes I'm excited and we are about out of time So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show, we will see you next week We'll do it build it and make it again Tuesdays we go live at 4 p.m. Eastern time and we have new videos every Friday Look, I'm so glad that glue is dry