Darkroom vs Digital Techniques - Digital Solarisation and Toning using Photoshop and Lightroom

Below are some screenshots of the digital toning and solarisation process using both Lightroom and Photoshop.

Toning

Producing a vignette in Lightroom

Digital negative and solarisation

These techniques are very similar.

After our morning of digital toning we had a bit of fun and we did some Inkjet Transfer Prints.

We had to choose a suitable image, and bring it into Photoshop and try to adjust it so it was quite highly contrasted.  We then has to alter the size of the image by going to Image > Image size and then choose 5x7 inches.  Obviously the orientation, landscape of portrait would decide whether the image was 7x5 or 5x7.

The image was printed out onto acetate and whilst it was still wet we had to put the acetate onto a suitable paper (water colour or cartridge paper).  We then used a roller to flatten the acetate against the paper.

If you were to include any writing in your image you would need to flip the image in Photoshop.  You would then get a vague outline of the writing.

I chose two images of butterflies, one a green butterfly that I had photographed at Stratford’s Butterfly Farm, and then a traditionally British butterfly that I had snapped whilst out walking with my family.

The images produced were quite mottled and reminiscent of Heinrich Kuhn.

I will be uploading my Inkjet Transfer images once I have my folder returned to me.