Well the bug bit me. I got the tangerine, red, purple and a rosey pink color. I also got some watercolor paper. I am looking forward to printing on it and seeing improved results, if not more a more simple, and more controlled process.
Here’s some more from a few weeks ago. The fourth one has a localized (spot, selective) toning. It leads to a stronger effect, which is good. It can also lead to spotting or clouds of color if you are not careful.
Toning inkjet prints. This relates to toning in a traditional B/W class, though on a budget it is less likely one will use a collection of dyes or toners mean for traditional papers. To substitute, I used food coloring and clothes dye found at your local “wallymart”. They usually have a good selection and that’s where you can get dishware tubs which are an excellent 12×16 and fits letter (8.5×11 ) sized prints well.
So lets get to the meat of the entry. Which one was better? I would say both have “dye” ink components, so both will work very much the same. The clothes dye can be a more permanent solution as the food/eggshell dye is more “safe” and edible dye versus a “throw this on your clothes to repaint them” much more permanent and less edible product that the clothes dye is. In practice, the food coloring dye is the easier one to work with because it needs a high concentration to work well or fully saturate the paper, and if you don’t want that, you have a adequate amount of time (around five minutes) to remove it from the dye. The clothing dye works instantly. Dip it and agitate a few times and you got a good preview of what there is to come. Leave it there two minutes and you will have a density of about 60 percent of the final “no frills”, fully saturated one color result. What does it look like and has it happened to me? Yes, naturally the thrill seeker inside of me pushes me to make unwise choices and gives no qualms about sticking to the rules. (to be inserted a really red picture of a glass with a spoon with tea bag alongside of it)
The why. It is just one of those things I feel I need to and will do once a year (last yr I did something similar). I attribute it something similar Iphone users adding filters to their photography, but do not mistaken that both are the same. -One is a tonal correction to change the impact of the image and the other is a practice, practiced by many to resuscitate an image.-
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