Create Laser-Ready Artwork for Galvo Engraving.

Build black and white engraving images with AI, clean up PNG artwork, and convert production files into DPI-aware SVG output.

Featured examples

Artwork examples and reusable prompt ideas.

Review generated examples, then apply a clean prompt and compatible saved settings as a starting point for your own laser engraving project.

Prompt results are not exact duplicates. Reusing an example prompt will create a similar variation each time, based on the current model, settings, and uploaded references.

Plans

Choose the image generation level that fits your workflow.

PNG-to-SVG conversion runs locally. Paid plans include flexible generation credits, saved prompt tools, and 90-day credit rollover.

Free

$0

Try the image builder and local SVG converter.

  • 10 generation credits
  • Browser PNG-to-SVG conversion
  • DPI-aware SVG export

Starter

$15 / month

Good for occasional laser artwork creation.

  • Up to 12 Standard images monthly
  • 90-day credit rollover
  • Saved prompt library
  • AI PNG cleanup before SVG tracing

Pro

$29 / month

Built for steady production and prompt reuse.

  • Up to 60 Standard images monthly
  • 90-day credit rollover
  • Saved prompt library
  • Revision and cleanup workflows

Studio

$59 / month

For consistent weekly engraving production.

  • Up to 180 Standard images monthly
  • 90-day credit rollover
  • Priority production workspace

Shop

$89 / month

For high-volume engraving businesses.

  • Up to 300 Standard images monthly
  • 90-day credit rollover
  • Highest monthly generation balance
Add-on packs

Need more images this month?

Generation-credit packs are designed for occasional image overflow without forcing a plan upgrade.

25 generation credits

$15

Best for a few extra client revisions or one-off projects.

50 generation credits

$25

Good for active design weeks and medium production bursts.

100 generation credits

$45

Best value when a shop needs extra generation capacity.

Checkout for add-on packs will be enabled after Stripe one-time Price IDs are created.

Features Coming Soon

Creator tools built for the work that happens after the artwork is ready.

Turn finished engraving artwork into polished product mockups, rotating previews, and listing-ready media without rebuilding your design from scratch.

  • 3D tumbler mockups for popular sizes and finishes
  • Artwork placement controls, product scenes, and rotating previews
  • Downloadable listing media for creator storefronts
Three-angle tumbler listing preview
Three-angle listing set
Creator Tools Lab Product mockups in motion

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Laser Engraving Gallery

Production inspiration

Tumblers, slides, overlays, and prompt recipes.

This gallery is designed for finished examples, shop samples, and prompt notes that help users understand what Core-X Ai Studio can create.

Account workspace

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Saved work

Keep production files organized.

Your saved PNG and SVG files stay available in Your Library. Reuse them in the AI tools, send PNG files to the SVG converter, or attach them to production jobs.

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Your Image Library

Account storage

Saved PNG and SVG artwork for reuse.

Save generated images and converted SVG files, download selected files, delete old work, or reuse one saved image as an AI reference, overlay guide, implementation asset, or PNG-to-SVG input.

Image Library

Saved generated images appear here for your account.

Inches use the saved SVG physical size when available; otherwise they are calculated at the 300 DPI engraving reference.

Use the green Use in a tool button on one image to open it in another Core-X workflow. Checkboxes are for batch download, job assignment, organization, and deletion.

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Your Production Jobs

Production workspace

Keep every customer order and its artwork together.

Choose a job, save artwork to it from a tool, then find every linked PNG and SVG here. The advanced sizing tools stay available when you need them.

  1. 1. Choose or create a jobUse the selector below.
  2. 2. Save artwork to that jobUse Save PNG to job or Save SVG to job.
  3. 3. Review and download filesThey appear in Linked files.

Select a job

Choose a job to view its linked files.

Step 3

Linked files

Files saved to this job from AI Laser Engraving Image Builder or PNG to SVG Converter appear here.

Optional: prepare this design for more product sizes

Use these tools only when one saved design needs reusable size proofs or batch exports.

Reusable artwork source

Master Design

Save the source artwork and recipe you will reuse for product-size proofs, safe areas, and future fit exports.

Not set up

The Master Design preserves the source and generation recipe. Product Size Proofs and Batch Fit And Export below reuse this record without replacing the original artwork.

Product size check

Product Size Proof

Create a dimensional proof from this Master Design. The original artwork is never resized or replaced.

Master Design required

Choose a Master Design source to preview its product fit.

Dimensions are shown at the selected physical size. The dashed frame is the safe area.

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Production export

Batch Fit And Export

Render selected product fits as separate PNG files inside their saved safe area. Round fits export with transparent corners; every output keeps its Master source and product-fit metadata.

Select one or more saved product fits to export.

Job activity

Job timeline

Account workspace

AI Job History

Background generation

Your image requests

Completed artwork remains available here for 7 days. Save important results to Your Library before temporary job files expire.

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Galvo Black & White Image Builder

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Generated PNG

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Your generated black and white image will appear here

Prepare

Save and export

Step 3. Choose an image mode and write your prompt.

Choose an artwork priority to see the recommended image model.

Choose a quality to see this image's estimated generation-credit use before submitting.

Generate an image first, then ask for changes here.

Estimated usage: 1 AI credit after a successful revision is returned.

Saved prompts are available on paid plans.

Your Library

Choose library images

Choose one or more saved images.
Save generated PNG

Choose where this image belongs.

Choose a job to keep this image with a customer order, or save it only in Your Library.
Save converter file

Choose where this file belongs.

Choose a job to keep this production file with an order, or save it only in Your Library.

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PNG to SVG Converter

Continue your workflow

Return home, create new artwork, or build an overlay before bringing a finished PNG back here for tracing.

Optional. Load a PNG to enable AI optimization. Estimated usage: 1 AI credit after a successful optimization is returned.

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SVG

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Inspect, save, or export this trace.

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Optional production export

Create two purpose-built SVG versions

This does not duplicate the current SVG. It independently traces the same PNG twice: a detail-preserving archive master and a second version tuned for the material you select.

Vector Master: retains maximum practical detail for archival use and fine-detail materials.

Laser Copy: applies the selected material cleanup without changing the master.

Load a PNG to prepare a high-detail master and a product-safe laser copy.

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Conversion Modes

Professional VTracer

Uses a local WebAssembly tracing engine to convert the cleaned black-and-white image into compact, smooth SVG curve paths. Processing stays on this device and does not use AI credits.

Best for: production engraving files, detailed line art, logos, silhouettes, and final SVG downloads that must remain smooth when enlarged.

Tradeoff: final-quality tracing can take longer on very large or highly detailed images. The app automatically uses its built-in curve tracer if WebAssembly is unavailable.

High quality curve trace

Converts the PNG into a clean black/white mask, smooths stair-step edges, removes small artifacts, simplifies the outline, and exports fitted SVG curve paths instead of pixel blocks.

Best for: final galvo engraving SVGs, logos, silhouettes, text, AI-generated black/white artwork, and anything that looked jagged when zoomed in.

Tradeoff: it is intentionally black and white only. It may soften tiny jagged details so the result engraves cleaner.

Photo to line art

Turns color PNGs and photos into high-contrast black line art by converting to grayscale, boosting contrast, detecting image edges, thickening the detected lines, cleaning small artifacts, and tracing those lines as SVG paths.

Best for: photo-style engraving, portraits, product images, and full-color artwork that needs to become mark/no-mark black line art.

Tradeoff: it creates line art, not shaded halftone engraving. Tune Photo contrast and Edge sensitivity before adjusting path smoothing.

Fine-detail contour trace

Follows the black-and-white pixel mask closely to keep tiny marks and narrow gaps that smooth curve tracing can lose. Corner softening is optional.

Best for: detailed engraving, fine hatching, small lettering, and artwork where missing marks matter more than file size.

Tradeoff: SVGs can be larger and edges can look more angular at high zoom. Use Professional VTracer for smoother, more compact curves.

Color contour vector trace

Converts PNG color regions into actual SVG vector shapes. The app reduces the image into a color palette, traces each color region into filled contours, smooths those contours, and writes editable path geometry instead of rectangular pixel blocks.

Best for: low-color graphics, logos, stickers, icons, and color PNG images where preserving several colors matters.

Tradeoff: photos with soft gradients can still create many contour shapes. Reduce the color palette for cleaner output.

Raster SVG wrapper

Wraps the PNG inside an SVG file without tracing it into editable vector paths. It preserves the original raster image appearance as closely as possible.

Best for: preserving exact visual appearance, previewing DPI and physical sizing, or using software that accepts raster content inside SVG.

Tradeoff: it is still a PNG inside an SVG container, so it is not true vector geometry for cutting or path-based engraving.

Laser engraving recommendation

Use Photo to line art for color photos, and Professional VTracer for clean two-color logos, silhouettes, AI-generated engraving images, and final SVG downloads. Keep Output DPI between 254 and 300, then tune threshold, simplification, corner smoothing, and vector quality.
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Built for laser engraving workflows.

  • AI black and white generation for high-contrast engraving artwork.
  • Image Overlay Builder for creating separate transparent overlays or baked proof images from uploaded outlines.
  • Multiple guide outputs for related slide sides or part outlines that need a matching visual theme.
  • AI reference image support so users can guide style, subject, theme, logos, and implemented artwork.
  • PNG cleanup for engraving to prepare cleaner artwork before tracing.
  • True vector tracing tools with VTracer support, smoothing, simplification, and preview checks.
  • 254-300 DPI SVG export for high-detail galvo marking workflows.
  • DPI-aware sizing to help preserve physical output dimensions.
  • Saved prompts and settings for paid users who want to reuse production recipes.
  • Admin dashboard for usage, Stripe revenue, account plans, launch readiness, and gallery drafts.

Coming Soon

Creator Tools for listing-ready product mockups.

Creator Tools is being refined for a future Core-X release. It will help creators present engraving artwork on tumbler mockups before producing a listing or physical sample.

Product mockups Place artwork on common tumbler sizes and finishes.
Rotating previews Create smooth product views that show a full wrap.
Creator exports Prepare polished stills and motion-ready listing media.

This feature is not available to customer accounts yet. Your current artwork, saved prompts, and account data remain unchanged.

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How AI PNG Optimization Works

No prompt is required

The optimizer uses a built-in Core-X instruction set. Choose GPT Image 2 when preserving fine detail matters most, or GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst when you need bolder cleanup for fragile coatings. Both preserve the main subject and composition while rebuilding the image as high-contrast black-and-white engraving artwork.

What is sent to AI

The currently loaded PNG is sent to Core-X AI Studio's secure image service together with its original aspect ratio. No saved prompts, SVG output, or unrelated account files are included.

Credit use: a successful optimization uses generation credits based on its selected quality and native canvas size. Opening this help window or canceling the confirmation does not use credits.

Image size and proportions

AI creates a new PNG using the closest supported output dimensions while preserving the uploaded image's aspect ratio as closely as the model allows. It does not retain the original pixel dimensions, DPI metadata, or exact physical width and height.

After the optimized PNG is returned, it replaces the current converter input. Your DPI, physical-size, threshold, smoothing, speck-removal, and VTracer settings are then applied during SVG conversion.

Before spending a credit

Use this when the source needs artistic cleanup, stronger black-and-white separation, or simplified engraving detail. Skip it for an already-clean logo, silhouette, or line drawing and use Professional VTracer directly. AI may redraw small details, lettering, faces, logos, or exact geometry, so inspect the returned PNG before tracing it.

Engraving prompt reference

Build cleaner laser engraving prompts

Choose a section below, then adapt the wording to your subject or theme.

Foundation

Use this wording when a simple black-and-white request needs a clearer engraving direction.

Create the artwork in a high-contrast black-and-white engraving style. Use a solid black background with white illustrated linework only. The image should look like a vintage etched, woodcut, scratchboard, or linocut illustration with bold outlines, dramatic contrast, detailed hatching, carved-style texture, and crisp graphic shapes.

Reusable master prompt

Create a highly detailed black-and-white illustration of [SUBJECT/THEME] in a bold engraving style. Use only pure black and pure white with no grayscale and no color. The background must be solid black. Render all artwork in white linework and white filled highlights, with strong contrast, bold silhouettes, crisp contours, and detailed etched textures. The style should resemble vintage woodcut, scratchboard, linocut, or hand-engraved poster art. Use dramatic lighting translated into black-and-white shapes, with fine hatching, carved shading, and decorative line detail. Keep the composition clean, balanced, and visually powerful, like a premium t-shirt graphic or laser-engraving design. Make the image vector-friendly in appearance, with readable forms, clean negative space, and sharp edges. Avoid soft gradients, blurry shading, muddy midtones, realistic photo rendering, and painterly effects.

Laser-ready prompt

Generate [SUBJECT/THEME] as a pure black-and-white engraving design for laser engraving. Use only black and white, with no grayscale, no color, and no soft gradients. The background should be solid black, and the artwork should be rendered in white only. Use bold outer contours, clean internal linework, carved-style hatching, and high-contrast graphic shading. The style should feel like scratchboard, woodcut, etched ink illustration, or vintage engraved poster art. Keep the shapes crisp, separated, and easy to read. Make the design clean, sharp, and vector-friendly, with strong silhouettes, controlled detail, and minimal muddy texture. Avoid photographic realism, airbrushing, soft shadows, blurry edges, and low-contrast areas.

For a commercial finish, add: "The final image should look like premium black-and-white t-shirt artwork or engraved merch art, with a clean commercial illustration finish."

Useful style keywords

  • high-contrast black and white
  • engraving style
  • scratchboard illustration
  • woodcut illustration
  • linocut style
  • etched line art
  • vintage engraved poster art
  • bold graphic illustration
  • white ink on black
  • t-shirt graphic style
  • vector-friendly
  • crisp outlines
  • decorative linework
  • carved shading
  • hatching and stippling
  • silhouette-driven composition
  • screen-print ready
  • laser engraving friendly

What to avoid

Do not use grayscale, color, soft gradients, blurry shading, watercolor effects, painterly rendering, photo-realism, soft shadows, muddy midtones, or low-contrast textures. Do not make it look like a photograph or digital painting.

Prompt structure

  1. [SUBJECT/THEME]
  2. high-contrast black-and-white engraving, scratchboard, woodcut, etched poster art
  3. solid black background, white linework only, no grayscale, no color
  4. bold outlines, fine hatching, crisp contours, clean negative space
  5. t-shirt graphic, laser engraving design, vector-friendly
  6. avoid gradients, photo realism, soft shading, muddy texture

Short reusable version

Create [SUBJECT] in a highly detailed black-and-white engraving style, using only white artwork on a solid black background. The illustration should resemble scratchboard, woodcut, and etched poster art, with bold outlines, crisp contours, high contrast, carved shading, decorative linework, and strong silhouettes. Keep it clean, graphic, and vector-friendly. No grayscale, no color, no soft gradients, no painterly effects, and no photorealism.

Commercial merch version

Design [SUBJECT] as a premium black-and-white merch-style illustration. Use a solid black background and white linework only. The image should feel like a highly detailed engraved t-shirt graphic with woodcut and scratchboard influences, bold silhouettes, sharp contours, clean negative space, refined hatching, and decorative etched texture. The final result should be dramatic, crisp, and visually striking, with a polished commercial illustration finish. No grayscale, color, blur, airbrush shading, or painterly rendering.

Complete template

Create a highly detailed illustration of [SUBJECT/THEME] in a premium black-and-white engraving style. Use only pure white artwork on a solid black background. The illustration should resemble vintage woodcut, scratchboard, linocut, and etched poster art, with bold silhouettes, crisp contours, clean negative space, decorative linework, and carved-style shading. Use fine hatching and engraved texture to add depth, while keeping the design clean, graphic, and readable. The final result should look like a polished commercial t-shirt graphic or laser-engraving design, with a strong vector-friendly appearance. Prioritize high contrast, sharp edges, and clear subject separation. Do not use color, grayscale, soft gradients, painterly effects, blurry shading, or photorealistic rendering.

Persistent style instruction

All generated artwork must follow this style: pure black-and-white only, black background, white illustrated artwork, no grayscale, no color, no soft shading, no painterly rendering. Use a bold engraved illustration style combining scratchboard, woodcut, etched line art, and linocut aesthetics. Emphasize clean silhouettes, crisp outlines, decorative line detail, carved hatching, and strong contrast. Produce a graphic, merch-quality result suitable for laser engraving, print, or vector tracing.

Readability and SVG conversion

When a result is too busy, add:

Prioritize readability and bold shape design. Keep the main elements clearly separated from the background. Use strong silhouette contrast and avoid cluttered micro-detail that reduces clarity.

For later vector tracing, add:

Keep the artwork vector-friendly, with clean edges, distinct shapes, controlled line density, and minimal ambiguous gray texture. Avoid overly noisy detail that would trace poorly.

Other useful alternatives: "scratchboard illustration," "woodcut poster art," "engraved t-shirt graphic," "white ink on black," "etched line illustration," "commercial merch graphic," and "linocut-inspired high contrast art."

Load Saved Prompt

Choose how this saved prompt should be loaded.

Saved prompt

Save this prompt before clearing?

Your current prompt and settings can be saved for reuse before this project is cleared.

Yes saves the prompt first. No clears it without saving. Cancel returns to your project unchanged.

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Laser engraving recommendation

Use stronger black-and-white separation?

High Contrast black & white gives powder-coated tumblers clearer mark/no-mark separation and more reliable laser results.

Your selected style can still be used. Choose the recommended setting for bolder, cleaner engraving detail, or continue with your current style.

Saved prompt

Edit Saved Prompt

Update the name or prompt text. Saved settings stay unchanged unless you choose to replace them.

Edit the saved recipe, then save changes.

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Updating reloads this page. Save or download any work you need first; you can choose Later and be reminded again.

Tumbler size applied

Correct the width before generating

Use the Tumbler / Cylindrical Correction Calculator to apply the appropriate width correction before generating your artwork.

Saved prompt

Save this prompt so you can reuse it later?

Choose whether to save only the written prompt or include the current generator settings.

Download location

Save to Downloads folder?

Choose Downloads for the normal browser download, or pick a different location for this file.

Tumbler / Cylindrical Correction Calculator

Calculate a compensated width for Custom Image Shape. Use either this helper or Rotary width compensation, not both, unless you intentionally want a stronger correction.

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Instructions will appear here after calculation.

Recommended workflow: click Apply to Custom Width, enter the unchanged height, and leave Rotary width compensation set to No compensation. Use Add Sizing Note to AI Prompt only when you are not entering the calculated width in Custom Image Shape.

Production workspace

Create job

Create a job for a customer, product, or production run. Saved PNG and SVG files will be linked to the selected job.

Your jobs

Diameter / Circumference Converter

Enter either measurement. Core-X uses circumference = diameter x pi.

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Choose the direction that matches the measurement you know.
Tumbler catalog request

Request a Tumbler Size

Send the product details to the Core-X support queue for measurement review before it is added to the lookup.

Your request is sent privately to the Core-X administrator.

Production workspace guide

How Jobs work

Use a Job to keep one customer order, product run, or design revision in one place.

1. Create and select a job

Choose New job, give it a useful name such as Riley - 20 oz tumbler - mountain scene, and select it in the Current job menu. The chosen job stays active while you move between the AI Laser Engraving Image Builder and PNG-to-SVG Converter.

2. Attach your artwork

With a job active, generated artwork uses Save PNG to job. After tracing, use Save SVG to job. Those saves place the file in Your Library and link it to the selected job.

Generating an image, downloading it, or sending it to the converter does not attach it by itself. Choose the job-aware save action when the version is worth keeping.

3. Review the job

Open Jobs and choose the job. Linked files appear with a thumbnail, dimensions, and format. Open Prompt & settings on a saved AI image to review the prompt and creation settings used for that specific file.

4. Reuse or finish work

Restore last settings returns the latest saved generator settings for the job. Use Download production packet when the linked PNG and SVG files are ready to hand off. Existing files in Your Library can also be assigned to a job from the Library workspace.

Example

For a slate coaster order, create Harper Coasters - wildlife set. Generate and save each approved PNG to that job, trace only the approved versions, then save the SVG files to the same job. The Jobs page becomes the single review list for the artwork, prompts, settings, and production files.

Preflight check

Laser readiness

Inspect this result before marking material.

This is a file-quality preflight, not a machine setting recommendation. Always test on scrap material before production.

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