Carving photos on wood

[rca1492 (richard acker)]

Hi,
Has anyone here ever tried to make a wood carving from a photo? What software should i use?
Thanks

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Yes.

One approach is to just cut the dark/light in the photo as a texture using Carbide Create Pro:

https://carbide3d.com/hub/courses/create-pro/3d-tool-add-image/

If that doesn’t suit, then one needs a way to interpret the photo’s use of dark/light to represent what the eye sees into height/depths.

Re-drawing or creating a model from scratch using some suitable tool.

Some folks have been experimenting with using LLMs for this.

[Woodcrafter (John Matteson)]

Here’s a video featuring a photo created with a Shapeoko—you might find interesting.

How To Carve a Photo with a CNC Router

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Another option is:

Halftone generator on Cutrocket

This was announced/demoed in a limited way a while back — had occasion to reference it in a support ticket recently, so here’s the text from that: We have a halftone generator which will accept black and white images, so you will need to convert any image into a black and white picture. That is the only type of picture the generator will accept. Help file: Halftone Generator - Help

[45rpm (John Clark)]

Not sure if this has been shared here before, but I just came across this for 3D work:

https://www.sculptok.com/

It creates depth maps from photos. Going to try a few this weekend. (You would need Carbide Create Pro for this)

[bpedit (Byrne Pedit)]

Let us know how it works for you. Looks intriguing.

[flynnie (Ed Flynn)]

I have not been able to reproduce any photos as those shown in that video. I believe the video was done using vectric software, CC does not seem to have that same ability. I have used sculptok a lot to produce stl models for 3d images of photos. However, not every photo is a good candidate. You’ll need to play around with the images to find a look you like. Sometimes you’ll also need to manipulate the photo too. My wife has told me some of the images I’ve done look like zombies.

[45rpm (John Clark)]

This is my first attempt with SculptOK

Fiddling about with SculptOK 3D Depth Map Generator

First the test result: [IMG_4050] Which came from this: [Buddies - 1] What I used: I have been wanting to do more with 3D recently and I came across a mention of SculptOK, an online tool for generating depth maps from images. https://www.sculptok.com/ It’s a pretty simple process, upload an image, select a couple of options and click draw. You get four versions of the depth map and you can download them to use in Carbide Create Pro. Mine looked like this: [9fcc7445-5865-49ab-bfa6-f8ff…

It’s pretty cool.