Engraved photo

So one of the reasons I bought the glowforge was to engrave photos. I work at a pet resort and we do photography there as well as I do my own work doing weddings and such. So I decided to engrave a photo of one of my boss’ dogs. She absolutely loooooves it! I ended up taking off the protective sheet though. First engrave I did looked super nice until i took the tape off. It took all that extra detail off. But I had to do very little cleaning on the wood and it looks super nice :). It took a lot of trial and errors though. It was hard for me to go so drastic with the brightness and contrast considering that is a big no no when editing regular photographs @_@.