RE: Freeform gum (Re: Gum printers in UK (Re: Scott McMahon gumworkshop, September
Not that I think I have a better idea but will list some solutions that look probable to me: a) Making duotone (or tritone, or quadtone) separations. My color theory / duotone knowledge is limited, so I can't say if one could design duotones profiles giving results similar to the image in question... b) As Katharine says -> making tri-color separations... (Coloring done in image editing program...) c) Using a fairly high contrast negative and printing the highlights / midtones and shadows in different colors. Shadows could have been printed using a fairly opaque color or a color that gives green when printed over earth colors - if possible... (Again, I don't know if there are such opaque greens - or if there's a color which will give green when printed over earth colors... A transparent blue?) I would first try (c) then (b) and (a)... Regards, Loris. -----Original Message----- From: Katharine Thayer [mailto:kthayer@pacifier.com] Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:40 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Freeform gum (Re: Gum printers in UK (Re: Scott McMahon gum workshop, September ... Hence David's question about how one would get such a nice separation of the green, in the absence of the use of color separations. One possibility is that maybe that image isn't a freeform gum but is done with a separation negative of some sort. Otherwise, I don't know how it could be done. Hope that's helpful, and as I said, I hope if someone has a better idea, they'll say so. Katharine
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