Creative Techniques

make reverse printouts on a black and white copier or printer and use an acetone maker (i like chartpak) on the othe side of the sheet while the other side with the print is on any substrate paper, wood, plastic, your binder or some ones computer monitor - make sure you hate that person. And with that the acetone will release the toner from the sheet to what ever you are leaning against.

up up down down left right left right A B A B start

I swear, I didn't get a word of that. Sorry! Can you like try break it down for me please?

i had ten minutes to write that - and i am not a literary master.
1. design something- or get copies of anything
2. Print it out - but it must be on a black toner machine - ink jet and color toner doesn't work at all
3. take the copy/print out and flip it over so that the printed side is face down
4. on the othe side of the sheet use that acetone/blender marker to color in the space that the image takes up on the back.
5. And with that you got the toner to release from the sheet to what ever you were leaning against.

the above thing i did for school and wanted it to look like a stamp.
its good for really destroyed distress type. images work good to. halftone patterns like comics, newspaper/magazines or copies that have been copied a 1000 times.

hope that was better english- which i suck at anyways - and it is my first language

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I remember cutting color seps using Amberlith, rub-off halftones and typestyles, laying out text one letter at a time. Ahh... Those were the days. When it took at least a couple of weeks to do a letter-fold brochure, hand-stripping 4-color negatives.

I know that having that experience and understanding the processes involved allow me an edge in some of the more creative projects that we take on. No doubt about that.

I had a friend recently ask me how I generated a texture on a piece that we recently developed that had a distressed, monolith look (similar to cbrophy78's example), like this. Here's how:

1. Design your piece and pull it into photoshop.
2. Take a clean sheet of paper outside and lay it on the ground.
3. Beat the hell out of the paper with a rock.
4. Take the paper back inside and scan it as a grayscale.
5. Paste the image in its own layer, on top of your design, reverse the image, adjust levels or curves to boost the contrast to your liking and set the layer to "Screen."
6. Adjust transparency to suit and you're done.

It's a cool effect.

I did mention I can't use the computer didn't I? Sorry thornysarus but I can't use the computer for this project.

Anyone know any screen/silk printing techniques?

burnishing text.
or acrylic medium

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