Identifier: americanannualof1912newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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white surface. If a little sky shows through the branches,touch it out with a pencil before coloring. You could neverget a natural blue on a buff surface, as the combinationmakes green, for which reason a white surface is essentialfor most subjects. Fix your prints in plain hypo, as the hardening of an acidbath has a tendency to prevent even absorption of paints.As soon as fixed, transfer to tray of water till ready to washto avoid danger of toning. Clean prints with tuft of cotton 154 dampened with water. Do not use alcohol, as it hardens thefilm. Do not trim prints before coloring. Use two pins ineach corner to fasten print to piece of corrugated cardboard,such as framer uses to back a picture. You are now ready to color, and at a north window is thebest place. On a level with the eye the brush goes most trulyto the desired spot, for which reason an easel is a good thing,but a good substitute can be made from pieces of a woodenbox, and set upon the table before you. If you must work
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DOWN THE MONTEREY COAST.(Not Suitable for Coloring.) EDGAR A. COHEN. with print flat on table to prevent soiling, cover with a sheetof letter paper that portion of print on which hand wouldrest. You must have two glasses of water: one to moisten brushand the other to rinse it. If you get your colors wrong, a wet brush or a wet tuftof cotton, with a blotter to take up the moisture will removecolor from the portion from which you wish it eliminated.If you want it all off, lay print on a piece of glass and holdunder faucet, scrubbing gently with a nail brush till it is clean. The sky is the most difficult thing to handle, and it is well 155 before pinning prints to cardboard to put it into all youintend coloring within a given time. Put about an ounce of water in a cup and into it squeezeabout a quarter of a tube of cobalt blue. After putting itinto thorough solution, add enough permanent blue to darkenit perceptibly. Cobalt alone is rather pale. Many people give the whole print a blue w

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