Bleaching Photographs

Toning Prints With Food Dye

Photoshop Solarisation

After doing solarisation in the darkroom, I wanted to see what effect I could achieve on my images using Adobe Photoshop.

• Firstly, I dragged my image into Photoshop.
• I then clicked 'layer' to bring a drop down menu and clicked 'new adjustment layer' and then selected 'black & white'.
• Clicking 'layer' again to bring the same drop down menu, I clicked 'new adjustment layer' but this time selected 'curves'.
• This makes a box appear like the one I screen shot below.

• By holding the 'shift' key down, using the pencil tool, click the bottom left corner making sure both 'Output' and 'Input' are at '0', draw an upside-down 'V' like my screen shot below.

• I then clicked 'layer' again and then 'new adjustment layer' and clicked 'curves' again.
• The same box appeared but this time I clicked the curve tool and clicked below the ascending line at two points to make the image darker. Like the screen shot below.

• Finally, I used the dodge and burn tool to adjust the light and dark sections of my image. The dodge tool lightened the parts of the image that I wanted to be brighter, and the burn tool darkened the parts of the image that I wanted to be darker.

Below I have uploaded the original photograph, the black and white photograph and the edited photograph so the difference can be seen.

Graffiti in Brighton

Dark Room Solarisation

Leslie David Experiment

Press Printing