patch tool

Todays wonderful insight is the patch tool in photoshop.

hiding in the 'Healing Brush' section......take the patch tool,

draw as if you have a lasso around object you wish to remove but preserve a clear background...

In my case, a bird off a wire.... and bingo.....move your selection around till you get the right effect, a perfectly matched clear background, no birdy...nada!

Developer added to photocopier Colour prints nearly done

I think the title is pretty catchy!

So the developer which is magnetised and attracts the toner to the drum was replenished.

Back popped Jonathan Webb from EBS photocopiers to install said developer.

The blacks in my photocopies is now as black as night.

Today colour printing resumed on lining paper rather than the newsprint.

Mainly all went really well. Just some white marks on 20 prints to resolve.

The solution being to stop the print run and resume tomorrow morning when the machine is cold and has done a self-clean.

The lining paper was cut into 26cm pieces, keeping the width of the roll, on my A2 guillotine ( best buy of the book project so far!)

Grain runs north south of a roll, so when you put it on the wall, grain would run ceiling to floor.

I then flattened each piece but putting it through the photocopier with a blank 'screen', ie no image under the photocopier lid.

It is time consuming but works perfectly.


More interestingly, the music for the album is almost complete and one thing I really like are the noises that sound like someone is in the room with you, listening, the clicks, are they saliva sounds?

Printing days

If i want the blackest black over a large area, do two prints, remove artwork from glass, do 3 blank photocopies, then replace artwork and do 2 prints, remove artwork , lighten setting, do 3 blank copies, then replace artwork,remember to darken setting, do 2 prints.

continue.

It can take a couple of hours to do a page.

I have been flattening curly lining paper in the 'blank' passes.

When prints crinkle, this tends to happen if the paper has already passed through the machine a couple of times for other pages.

Best solution is to take that set of prints home and flatten them, cool them or change their environment in some way.

Return next day with prints and they don't crinkle.

Two prints on a page seems to work without problem before any crinkling occurs.

Toady's session stopped by big paper jam.

I'll sort it tomorrow.

Off to work now, ha ha.