Paint With Lasers!

Paint With Lasers!

on Jan 14th 2011 with 17 comments

Yah, I said lasers! This year, at Adobe Max, Photoshop Guru Russell Brown showcased a new way to paint using Photoshop CS5, and yes, laser beams. This technique uses lasers to engrave an image onto a canvas made of solid wood and then, using a high quality flatbed printer, print the color image onto the carved wood, leaving the creator with an eye-popping 3D version of the original image; which is frankly, amazing! To make things even cooler, Russell is going to give away a custom image to 1 randomly selected fan, as well as 10 copies of his book "From Reality to Renaissance" to 10 others.

To learn more about how you can enter, click here. In addition, you can learn more about this process by watching the video below.

 
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  • GaragDesign

    One word: what!?

  • http://slayyou2.deviantart.com/ Emmanuel Umukoro

    this looks so amazing how much would it cost to get the laser and the printer?

  • http://prescottcomputerguy.com Michael Glasser

    Very cool. I wish I had the equipment to try this myself. Thanks for sharing.

  • Liam JP

    You just made this one step simpler for me! I had a similar idea where I would just create a stencil and use a laser to trace the lines. Then I would use a similar printer to print it on. :D Now I can just do it directly from photoshop, thank you.

  • http://www.incoverdesign.com Dhiraj Singh Karki

    Russell Brown is kicking off his “Extreme Painting” video series that uses lasers to paint (or carve) an image onto a wooden canvas: http://adobe.ly/dF5yzL!

  • Ron

    Its cool, but its not really photoshop related.. its the printer that does the cool job

  • http://newevolutiondesigns.com Tom, NewEvolution

    That was pretty cool!

  • edwinhollen

    Because who doesn’t just have laser and depth-sensing printer just laying around?

  • http://twenstudio.com TWEN STUDIO

    Laser and long story , thanks for sharing this video

  • Ed

    Great fun but I don’t have $13k laying around for the laser (assuming it was the cheap one).

  • Gianluca
  • http://www.newsever.com newsever

    cooool

  • http://www.monsterwpthemes.com/ JD

    I’ve gotta say… that’s one of the coolest things I think I’ve ever seen.

  • http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk/ Amelia Johnson

    This is fascinating. It looks just like an oil painting and is made with lasers. Id love to have a go. That printer is pretty amazing.

  • http://www.supwavehunter.com Steve Ndeso

    it’s amazing.. pretty awesome

  • http://www.jokolo.fr jokolo

    The mix of the both techniques ( laser and print) using photoshop tools is amazing,
    It must still a bit expensive ;) but awesome.

  • http://www.animusmedia.com Raj

    Wow! this is really amazing. Can anybody please tell me where I can find giclee printer in India?
    Thanks