Re: Bromoil - masking/Bromoil paper

Dennis Carlyle ( dgcarlyl@vcn.bc.ca)
Sat, 11 January 1997 4:58 PM

.. so then Henk Thijs said ...
> Dennis asked (some time ago, but I was ill):
>> I asked about the possibility of producing a part-silver,
>> part-bromoil image by selectively applying the bromoil bleach

> In the answers I missed one solution:
> Why making an selective bleaching at all? Why not bleach the whole image, do
> not fix , rinse and soak and ink the part of the image you want to ink and
> as a next step, just redevelop, fix and wash. (Overlooked some unknown -to
> me- important phenomena?)

I suppose this would work; it may be worth a try. However, after
bleaching you would have a "blank" print, and only see image appear
as you inked it in, right? If you needed _precise_ control over
which areas are inked and which aren't, then I imagine some form
of masking would have to be used.

Dennis Carlyle

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