How to go about creating an image suitable for cnc engraving

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Hello, so I am quite new to Photoshop. I would like to know how you would go about creating a smooth sharp vector image ready for cnc engraving. I am working as a 3D artist at a company and I would like to make a gift for my little sister. That would be a wooden cnc cut clock. Now on to the question. I am trying to create an image with smooth lines and as much detail from this image Screenshot - 242fc8a002e35332d56fe873f2cb8579 - Gyazo but the image is quite small and in bad quality. I'm wondering what would be the best approach to achieve sharp vector image like this Screenshot - 89f54e0c5062cc20fc6c95b1d8c57d04 - Gyazo with as much detail preserved. Thanks for any replies.

davescm · Accepted Answer

You could trace the image with the pen tool in Photoshop to create a vector shape.Draw with Pen tools in Photoshop Dave

JJMack · Answer

Photoshop has few vector tool. Photoshop is Adobe pixel editor Illustrator is Adobe vector editor. AI is what you most likely should use. However if you have a clean smooth simple BW like that Cinderella clip art. Photoshop can quickly and easily create a vector path for that that simple image, It will not be a perfect path but with Photoshop vector tools you can improve what Photoshop quickly did. Again AI is adobe vector editor, I have never use it. It has a trace feature which most likely would produce a better Path than Photoshop. It would also be a lot of work to fix up Photoshop path.

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