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Cyanotypes with Photoshop

February 19, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin  
Filed under Home & Living

Technique Tuesday!

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If you don’t have a sample of a real cyanotype blue to use, here’s a fairly decent way to find one. You’ll need to play around with the sliders until the color looks good to you…there was quite a bit of variation in the color, so don’t feel that it has to match one you’ve seen exactly.

Step by step instructions

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7 Responses to “Cyanotypes with Photoshop”
  1. George Hall says:

    very happy to have found your site . . . i’m a collagist wanting to go strongly into digital work, and looking for any info to help me move in this direction, esp. software options other than photoshop, which i know is great but also greatly priced. cheers.

  2. Cyndi says:

    Welcome, George! Don’t miss the post on free online editors:
    http://www.layersuponlayers.com/free-online-photo-editors/

    They’re a great way to try it out before committing to an expensive program :-)

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