Picture to tool path

[FeliceM]

Hi,
I am new on the forum and I hope this is the right section for this question.
I have recently completed my first CNC machine starting from scratch after some experience on building few 3d Printers. Its working, its strong and I have already machined some plastic and wood parts.
So I have some familiarity with motion and control, autocad and slicers.

I have started testing my milling machine using Mach3 and Cambam to generate tool paths.
So far so good but my target now is to machine some part/art from pictures. Something like .
I browsed internet looking for software suitable for such operations but I am lost, very expensive (ArtCam, Vectric) and I am not even sure about which version I should use to obtain a tool path from a picture.

I would appreciate some advice and alternatives about which software to try.
Thank you

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[magicniner]

Looking at the depth, shape, form and definition of the detail on that horse I think it's from a solid model, not a picture.

- Nick

[FeliceM]

Looking at the depth, shape, form and definition of the detail on that horse I think it's from a solid model, not a picture.

- Nick

Thanks for your opinion. Now that you say that I agree.