Engraving Photos with a Cricut Maker - Single Layer Method

How to prepare a photograph for engraving with the Cricut Maker engraving tool using a simplified, single layer method that can be accomplished largely with Cricut Design Space. Please click Show More for links.

Photo Engrave Starter Project Link (new link verified 10/2/20)
https://design.cricut.com/landing/project-detail/5f75237ee218a20cec75f52e

Preparing Photos with Imaengine iOS app
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPW8jdhI6Wk

Preparing Photos with CuteCutter.com
https://cutecutter.com/make-a-vinyl-decal/

Preparing Photos with Adobe Capture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc0eiE7bK9w

How to upload an SVG to Cricut Design Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWERANWQBJ8

How to fill a font or image in Design Space (non-photo)
https://youtu.be/hIPnbJ1m7MQ

The Dummy Shape Method for Aligning Engraving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ7-mIkXzkc

Step-by-step notes for this video can be found in Unit 6 of the
Cricut Engraving with CleverSomeday Facebook Group (also numerous other resources including SVG version of line pattern block)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/191403481797346/

Ebook on shaded photo Engraving (requires Silhouette Studio Business Edition)
https://cleversomeday.com/makerphotoengrave/

Where to buy acrylic blanks for engraving with the Maker
Craft Chameleon https://bit.ly/3dTiJsn (aff link)
Amazon.com/shop/cleversomeday

For problems opening shared files:
From a mobile device if you get the message
"Set up a new Cricut product, start designing and more.
Your operating system is not supported,"
click the 3 dots in the upper right corner and choose
Request Desktop Site, Request Mobile Site, Open in Safari or Open in Browser
If you still have trouble, please report this to Cricut and try again from a computer.
Once you have saved the file to your My Projects area on the cloud, you can
then access it from any device.
If the block is not displaying properly in the mobile app (showing as white or incomplete), either ignore display issues or work from a computer.

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