Photos don't arrive as tidy vector art: grain, lens flare and busy backgrounds turn into thousands of tiny regions. PLAyered boils a picture down to a handful of printable colors so it can become one multicolor print.
Off the anvil
What it actually looks like today. Captions say exactly what each image is.
Source photo: a golden thunderhead over a dark ridge (the maker's own photo).→
Actual app preview: thunderhead with a custom five-color palette. Not a photograph of a physical print.
Source photo: turquoise alpine lake beneath granite peaks (the maker's own photo).→
Actual app preview: alpine lake with a custom five-color palette. Not a photograph of a physical print.
The forging
macOS · for Bambu Lab printers
What it does
Takes a photo, drawing or logo (PNG, JPEG or WebP), crops it and gives it a real size in millimetres.
Reduces it to 2–8 colors, merges specks and smooths jagged edges, with side-by-side comparison as you go.
Builds a multicolor 3MF of flat artwork with a little depth. Your printer swaps filament for each color.
Checks the geometry and runs a real Bambu Studio slice before handing you the file.
How it's made
A local Mac app. Import, cleanup, preview, geometry and export all run on your Mac, with no account and no API key.
Output opens in Bambu Studio like any other project. You pick your Bambu Lab printer, nozzle and filament there.
Cleanup merges small islands and smooths boundaries. The Sliced view shows an approximation of the actual extrusion paths, so fine gaps are easier to spot before printing.
Tag
Ready
Free Mac download (v0.1.0), signed and notarized for Apple Silicon. Targets macOS 14+; tested on macOS 26. Bambu Studio 2.8+ is required for validated export.
