USING PRINTED ACETATE AS A NEGATIVE
Traditional photographic methods can be revisited using today’s technology. Special transparency film sheets have been created for both ink-jet and laser printers and allow you to create your own negatives in various sizes on your home computer.
To begin, launch your favorite image-editing program, and open the image from which you want to create a negative. There are three steps to print the image as a negative: First, convert the image to grayscale; second, reverse the image (especially if there is text on it); and third, invert the image by making the lights dark and the darks light. All these steps are fairly standard functions in image-editing programs, so explore your program to find these commands in ...
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