Secrets Of Photographic: How To Use Techniques Of Bi-Color Cyanotype

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints.



The book guides the reader with detailed descriptions and clear pictorial step-by-step instructions through the entire process of creating cyanotypes. In the beginning, we learn how to make chemicals, how to choose the right paper, how to make digital negatives, how to expose the image, how to coat the paper with emulsion, and the like.



In the following chapters are detailed descriptions on how to develop photographs, a large number of popular and some almost forgotten techniques of a simple one- and two-color toning of cyanotype, descriptions of making photograms, and a bit more challenging chapters of cyanotype printing on glass, stone, and fabrics.



This book does not lack practical examples of cyanotype for creating business cards, postcards, printed T-shirts, and the like.