Skip to Main Content
The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media
book

The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media

by Bonny Pierce Lhotka
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 43m
English
New Riders
Content preview from The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media

6. Vintage Tintypes Transfer

Image

The reaction I’ve been seeing to this process is amazing. When I was at the latest EG Conference, we had an assembly line set up to do portraits and transfers for the attendees. The smiles and laughter as folks dressed up for their portraits was matched only by the delight as they saw their final works (see the display of images just after the Table of Contents). This is an ideal process for images that might have imperfections, as those imperfections tend to disappear into the substrate. The image I’m using in this section is one of my dad from the 1950s taken in a photo booth—it has perfect tonality for the plate ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media

Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media

Bonny Pierce Lhotka
Fine Art Printing for Photographers, 3rd Edition

Fine Art Printing for Photographers, 3rd Edition

Uwe Steinmueller, Juergen Gulbins

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780133372991Purchase book