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I'd love to help you customize a beautiful lithophane! To create your masterpiece, I've assembled a step-by-step guide just for you. Let's get started! To begin with, we need to select some amazing features that will bring your design to life. **Using the following options:** 1. **Pane size**: Choose from small, medium, large or custom sizes for the base of your lithophane. 2. **Text vertical position**: Adjust where you want the text to be positioned in relation to the center of the image. 0 being top and higher numbers being lower positions. 3. **Number of layers**: Decide on how many detailed layers of images and patterns will go into your beautiful art piece - between 12 possible values, I chose number_of_layers = 12 4. **Include hole**: Yes! Include a delicate circle cut-out in the middle to make this a showstopper! Set this value as include_hole = yes 5. **Text lines:** * Text Line 1: Fill in your most important text here! Keep it short, about 50 characters or less for best visibility! * Text Line 2: This is where you'll write the next most important phrase. * Text Line 3: More fun information here. * Text Line 4: Another fun idea. * Text Line 5: (Don't forget this line!) The last bit of writing for this wonderful creation 6. **Text reverse**: By setting this option to "no," the text will appear as you typed it in! 7. **Text size**: Choose how big or small you want your font - a little bigger than a 10, I choose text_size = 10 8. **Picture shape:** Standard shape fits nicely in a 50x70 mm image file with standard_picture_shape = standard 9. **Layer height**: 0.2 makes for crisp layers, that will look just fantastic with this standard_picture_shape 10. **Picture orientation**: Place your picture vertically with standard_picture_orientation = vertical 11. **Image file:** Insert the path to a Lithophane-compatible image (.dat or .obj) like my cool lithopane_new20151121-5384-104d9p5-0.dat 12. **Hole diameter**: A hole 10 mm across adds style and helps maintain balance. When finished, save your settings by clicking on the orange 'Save' button at the bottom of this dialog box