"Brush Stroke Templates" around digital negs

Donsta · Aug 20, 2008

I tend to make Pd prints from digital negatives which are cleanly masked so as not to show any brush strokes etc. However, I have a little project where I think the effect of brush strokes and a natural black border would look good - anyone know of any "brush stroke" templates around where one could print a digital negatives with the "brush marks"? I use a magic brush anyway, and they don't leave very appealing brush marks - but hake brushes seem to produce a very nice effect - in any event, the look I'm after - any ideas? Anyone made some "brush stroke" templates?

cenotaphcorner · Aug 20, 2008

Making a digital template may not be the best idea—unless of course, you want all your project pictures to look identical. Why not print, process and dry your print as normal then mask of the image temporarily with some paper or cling film, then paint your own design of borders with the emulsion of your choice and re-process.

remko · Aug 21, 2008

the best thing to do this is to paint different strokes on paper and scan this for use as templates. Putting them in one file as different layers I use blending mode lineair dodge. combining the layers with different opacity gives different structures.
It is also easy to change the texture by painting in the layers with a large brush (wet media brush)

i did sent je a file in JPEG format as example off line. (original 76 MB)

Joe Lipka · Aug 21, 2008

Don't bother with a brush stroke template.

Just print your negative so you wind up with a clear area around the image. That way, YOUR brush strokes will be surrounding the image. Every image will be unique.

(Slaps forehead, says "D'oh")

Katharine Thayer · Aug 21, 2008

Imagine that, real brush strokes look more real than fake ones. Love it.
kt

Donsta · Aug 21, 2008

Joe Lipka said:
Just print your negative so you wind up with a clear area around the image. That way, YOUR brush strokes will be surrounding the image. Every image will be unique.

(Slaps forehead, says "D'oh")

Joe

The issue is I use a magic brush not a Hake brush and it doesn't actually make "attractive" brush marks like a Hake brush. I'm looking do a set of prints with "Hake brush style" brush marks... - I don't even own a Hake brush now; hence my looking for an alternative solution.

jd callow · Aug 21, 2008

Get a hake brush.

I'm with Joe Lipka, but also tend to dislike it when an artist trys to 'fool' me. The brush strokes indicate the process and to imitate them (like some digital shooters include a fake verification border on thier image) cheapen the work.

donbga · Aug 21, 2008

jd callow said:
Get a hake brush.

I'm with Joe Lipka, but also tend to dislike it when an artist trys to 'fool' me. The brush strokes indicate the process and to imitate them (like some digital shooters include a fake verification border on thier image) cheapen the work.

Don is such a superficial guy anyway he doesn't mind cheap looking prints.

Don Bryant

sanking · Aug 22, 2008

Well, you can find some real cheap hake brushes!

Sandy King

Don Bryant said:
Don is such a superficial guy anyway he doesn't mind cheap looking prints.

Don Bryant

sanking · Aug 22, 2008

Gee, now this just when I was thinking of starting a "trompe d'oeil" project.

Sandy King

jd callow said:
Get a hake brush.

I'm with Joe Lipka, but also tend to dislike it when an artist trys to 'fool' me. The brush strokes indicate the process and to imitate them (like some digital shooters include a fake verification border on thier image) cheapen the work.

donbga · Oct 5, 2008

Donsta said:
I tend to make Pd prints from digital negatives which are cleanly masked so as not to show any brush strokes etc. However, I have a little project where I think the effect of brush strokes and a natural black border would look good - anyone know of any "brush stroke" templates around where one could print a digital negatives with the "brush marks"? I use a magic brush anyway, and they don't leave very appealing brush marks - but hake brushes seem to produce a very nice effect - in any event, the look I'm after - any ideas? Anyone made some "brush stroke" templates?

Looks like Image Print might work for this task.

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