LINE COPY PICTURES |
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| by Ted Peterson |
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| Another thing that you may want to try is the making of a picture that only shows the edge of each item that looks like a line copy. |
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| Some of the top pictures of all time were this type. What they look like is the person making the picture made an outline of what they were going to cover. Solarization can if you re-expose the picture while the paper is in the developer is one way but the way we are going to talk about here is a way that you can do this fast and easy. |
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| What you need to do is make a litho copy of your picture. This gets rid of all the mid tones of the picture. You then make a negative of this negative so that you will two pieces of film, one with the highlights black and one with the highlights white. |
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| Make sure that you use litho film as you need thick film. |
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| Now take the two films and lay one on top of the other, back to back so the emulsion of the lower one faces down and the top one faces up. Make sure the 2 negative matches. Place a new unexpose film or photo paper on the bottom. |
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| Now place all of this on a 78, 33 1/3, or 45 turntable. Mount a flashlight above and at 45 degree to the turntable. Expose the picture by turning on the flashlight and running the turntable. The light will form a line where the two picture changed from the black and white. |
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| Now go ahead and develop the paper or film on the bottom. You will have a thin line at the junctions between the two parts of the picture and every thing else will be white. If you want a thinner line turn one of the films over so the separation is less. This makes the line thinner. |
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