Une recette. De nombreuses images. Un export.

Choosing recipe & material

Saved recipe

Loads a recipe previously saved in Photo Studio or Batch (material, image type, goal, tone, image prep, production values, and export settings) and overwrites the current settings. "No recipe · use settings below" uses the manually set controls instead.

Surface

Selects the target material (e.g. light birch, dark walnut, dark slate, clear/satin glass, clear/dark acrylic, light/dark plastic, anodized aluminum, stainless steel, leather). Resets engrave controls, image prep, and production values to that material's defaults.

Image type

Selects the motif category (photo or line art) and adjusts detail protection, edge handling, and local contrast accordingly. Also resets the controls.

Goal

Selects the tonal strategy (e.g. balanced, deep black engraving, FineTrace Deep, micro detail, soft photo, hard marking, vector graphic) — sets contrast, brightness, black/white point, and tonal separation. Also resets the controls.

Export target

Sets the target format for the later ZIP package: Vextrify project, LightBurn package, EZCAD package, or generic package. Determines which extra files are later available in the package-contents section.

Engrave controls

Expandable section, open by default — applies equally to every image in the batch.

Brightness, Contrast, Local contrast, Sharpness/Edges, Dot density, Dot size, Dot resolution, Threshold, Shadow control, Highlight protection, Gamma, DPI, Line interval, Output size mm

The full set of tonal and output controls from the recipe — identical to Photo Studio, but applied here to the whole image series. Any change resets the loaded recipe to "No recipe."

Couple DPI with line interval

Links resolution (DPI) and line interval so changing one automatically adjusts the other to match.

Dither pattern

Selects the dithering algorithm (none, threshold, Floyd-Steinberg, Atkinson, Stucki) used to convert tones into engravable dots.

Invert

Flips light/dark in the processed image — useful for light engraving on dark material.

Image preparation

Expandable section, collapsed — fine pre-processing before dithering.

Image calm, Detail protection

The image-prep controls from the recipe that are exposed in Batch: image calm smooths noise before the dot conversion, detail protection preserves fine structures and edges instead of dithering them away.

Production values

Expandable section, collapsed — machine values carried along with every processed image as its layer settings.

Speed

Feed rate for the later engrave, in mm/s.

Max Power

Maximum laser power as a percentage.

Min Power

Minimum laser power as a percentage — relevant for grayscale engraving with variable power.

Passes

Number of repetitions per image during engraving.

Line interval

Spacing between engrave lines in millimeters; stays in sync with the DPI setting in the engrave controls section when DPI coupling is on.

Frequency

Pulse frequency in kHz — relevant for fiber lasers and marking applications.

Air Assist

Turns air assist on or off for the later engrave.

Package contents

Expandable section, collapsed — controls which files are produced per image inside the ZIP package.

PNG

Includes the processed raster image (engrave-ready, with dithering applied) as a PNG file per image in the package.

SVG

Includes a threshold vector file per image as SVG in the package.

LightBurn project

Adds a LightBurn project file per image — only takes effect when LightBurn package is selected as the export target.

Parameter JSON

Adds the recipe and production values used as a JSON file per image, for traceability or re-import.

Readme

Adds a readme file with notes about the package contents.

EZCAD Notes

Adds operator notes for EZCAD per image — only takes effect when EZCAD package is selected as the export target.

Loading & processing images

Select images

Opens the file picker for multiple image files at once; non-image files are filtered out automatically. If more than the maximum allowed number is selected, the list is trimmed to the limit.

Download ZIP

Processes every loaded image in sequence with the current recipe and downloads the result as a single ZIP package. Disabled while no images are loaded or a batch is already running.

Send to / laser selector

Processes the images (if not already done) and hands them off as new objects to the selected laser tab in the laser view; the dropdown next to it only lists lasers that currently have an open tab in Laser Control. Disabled without loaded images or while a batch is running.

Stop after current image

Only appears while a batch is running. Cleanly cancels processing after the image currently in progress instead of continuing through the rest of the list.

Status line

Continuously shows the current state: number of prepared images, running progress (image X of Y), stop notice, package-full notice, or an error message if the laser handoff failed.

Queue & results list

Queue counter

Shows the number of images in the current queue along with the active settings (DPI, dither pattern, export target, whether a recipe is loaded) as a compact summary.

Image row with status

Lists every loaded image with its source and output file names plus status: waiting, running, done, or error. On failure, the specific error reason is stored per image.