Step 1) This project starts with a sized rectangle, it is then copied and pasted which would be slightly sized smaller to create a border.

Step 2) In this step I wanted to make sure the center was in fact center and to do this I used the align feature, horizontal and vertical buttons were used to shift the object to the correct position. I then brought in an image from my computer and aligned it within the center rectangle. The image is only for reference and for positioning the cut lined needed.

Step 3) As you can see or you can't see the cut lines from the SVG file I also brought in to the work area that I made in a different program, but I selected engrave just to show where it would cover as the cut lines over the picture was near invisible. Once I moved the grouped border and the actual picture and changed the lines to cut you finally can see them.

Step 4) This step was getting things ready to be cut on the laser, the border and the cut lines of the picture, this needed to be framed separate so I turned off the output to the border so just the portion of the cut line on the picture would frame by itself. Before the material could go to the laser a printed copy of the image was needed to be glued on to the wood in the area it would be cut. This printed was made with a colored laser printer on heavy stock paper. Not to worry the Xtool laser cuts right through the paper glued to the wood perfectly like it wasn't even there.

Step 5) Once the picture portion of area was cut out I reversed the output from on to off for the border to be cut and sent it to the laser to frame the border and not the first part. A completely second print just like the first one was printed off so the parts that were cut from the first one would be glued right over top in line of the picture itself, the border had 2 uses. The outside made the obvious border but the middle portion that was cut out became the new backing for the second print or picture.

Step 6) It is unfortunate I can not get a good picture of the finished product to show how great this looks adding the depth to this scenic view, I hope you trust me if you ever try this as it turned out wonderful...Enjoy!