Cyanotype: Printing with Light
Preparation of digital and manual negatives
A course by Fábrica de Texturas , Design Workshop
Joined February 2015
About the video: Preparation of digital and manual negatives
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn how to prepare the negatives that you will use to make your blueprints. We will create digital negatives to print photos, and manual negatives, to stamp illustrations. ”
In this video lesson Fábrica de Texturas addresses the topic: Preparation of digital and manual negatives, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cyanotype: Printing with Light. Learn how to print any type of image from scratch using light.
Partial transcription of the video
“Preparing digital and manual negatives In this lesson, we'll learn how to make negatives. Let's start with digital negatives. The process is pretty simple. I'll use Photoshop, but I'm sure there are other photo retouching tools that you can use, too. I chose this image, you can see that the background is lighter, there's a lot of contrast between the foreground with the flamingos and the background. The first thing we'll do is change the color mode because we're going to work with gray scales. Afterwards, the cyanotype print will be in blue tones. I go to Image, Mode and Gray scales. This i...”
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Course summary for: Cyanotype: Printing with Light
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Film Photography, Fine Arts, Printing

Fábrica de Texturas
A course by Fábrica de Texturas
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