Selective Masking Update

Some of you may have discovered by now that Kodak has discontinued its SO-132 Direct Duplicating film.

This film was the foundation for the “graduated burn” masking techniques described in masking article #2, and unless some other similar material is brought to market those masking techniques are no longer possible.

Certain Photoshop techniques seem now to be the most practical alternative, and I am currently writing an update article for ViewCamera magazine later this year.

In the meantime, here’s a hint: to make a top- or corner-burn mask paint a WHITE gradient into a transparent layer placed on top of a black layer. Since the white prints as clear on a transparency, you can use the opacity slider on the black to make it any shade of gray you want and thus tweak how much burn the corner gets.

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