This page opens in Black and white at Detailed smoothness with the logo sample, the settings that keep small lettering and fine points intact. Every black area becomes a closed, filled shape and the white is left out entirely, so there is no rectangle around the design for the laser to burn.
From picture to engraving file
- Use the sharpest original you have. A logo file, a scan at 300 dpi or a clear photo of a drawing. Engraving shows every wobble of a blurry edge.
- Move the threshold until letters are solid and their counters (the holes in a, e and o) are open. Thin strokes that break up need a lower threshold; blobs that fill in need a higher one.
- Keep Detailed for text and small marks. For a big, simple shape such as a silhouette, Smooth gives longer, calmer curves.
- Download SVG, import it and set the layer to Fill. Size it in your laser software; the SVG’s width is in pixels, so set the real size there.
Engraving tips
Run a test on scrap of the same material first: the line interval, speed and power that suit one wood rarely suit another, let alone leather, slate or coated metal. The black areas of your picture become the filled shapes, so they are what gets engraved; if you want the design to show the other way round, swap black and white in an image editor before tracing.
If you want the laser to cut the shape out as well, the image to DXF page sets up the same trace for cutting, and centre-line tracing turns line drawings into single strokes for scoring.
Sources
LightBurn documentation, “Layer modes” and “Imported extra lines” (version 2.1); xTool support, supported import formats for xTool Creative Space (updated May 6, 2025). Read in October 2026.