Cyanotype effect Photoshop Action
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From Wikipedia: Cyanotype is an old monochrome photographic printing process which gives a cyan-blue print.
The English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel discovered this procedure in 1842. Though Sir John Herschel is perhaps the inventor of the cyanotype process, it was Anna Atkins, a British scientist, who brought the process into the realm of photography. She created a limited series of cyanotype books that documented ferns and other plant life. By using this process, Anna Atkins is regarded as the first woman photographer.
Let’s ty to replicate the effect.
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Wael Kfoury on
December 19th, 2006 12:04 pm
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Interesting post. I came across this blog by accident, but it was a good accident. I have now bookmarked your blog for future use. Best wishes. Wael Kfoury.
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Emanuele the download is not working. Also, the example images are not shown. Just thought to let you know.
Thank you. Fixed
Hi Emanuele~
Thanks for sharing your actions- I love the double sketch, but I can’t get it to work? I tried it on a photo, do I need to create a new layer-is there something else I should do to the photo before runninf the action?
Please help:)
Grazie!
Hi Emanuele,
Your action worked like a charm! It was a nice surprise to see it work so well. Perhaps you can publish some other modern actions for old photographic processes? I am a big fan of Edward Sheriff Curtis and his historic documentation of Native American Indians and priceless artifacts. The gold tone prints from his Copper Photogravure Plates are some of the most beautiful one can see. I will leave you with 2 URL’s so you can see for yourself. Here they are:
http://www.fluryco.com/curtis/process.htm
http://pro.corbis.com/popup/Enlargement.aspx?mediauids={54b0de40-3c2b-4ed2-9cbf-4cc8af947d41}|{ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff}&qsPageNo=1&fdid=&Area=Search&TotalCount=3&CurrentPos=2&WinID={54b0de40-3c2b-4ed2-9cbf-4cc8af947d41}
Cheers!
Mark…
P.S. You will need to put the entire bit of the Corbis text as a URL in to your browser to go to Edward S. Curtis page on the Corbis site directly. The image for the supreme gold tone is called the Rush Gatherer by Edward S. Curtis (search Corbis Rush Gatherer Edward S. Curtis). Again, Thank You for your cool actions!!
Sincerely,
Mark
Hi!
I’m really keen to see what you have to say, but can not open the file. It has an odd file extension name. Are you able to save it all as a Word document or something else?
Thanks!
Sarah.
Does ANYBODY know how to load this in photoshop?
Hi All,
Here’s how to use the action in PhotoShop C2:
1. After you’ve downloaded the file from above, unzip it and then doubleclick it. [This part I am not too sure of as it all happened so quickly]. Open an image in PhotoShop.
2. Pick the Actions palette, which is beside the History palette.
3. Highlight “Triqui Cyano”.
4. Click the play button [a small arrow-head pointed to the right].
5. Click Continue, OK, OK.
6. Adjust Brightness/Contrast if needed, as suggested.
7. Smile. You’re done ;-)
Hi,
I’d think based on the physics of the real process, something like http://picasaweb.google.de/tinowildenhain/Cyanotype would more look like a real cyanotype. I see if I can produce a macro for gimp :-)