Toning Black-and-White Materials • G-23 9
SELECTIVE AND MULTIPLE TONING
You can produce striking effects by using these techniques:
• Tone only particular areas of a print and leave the rest
untoned.
• Use different toners on different areas of a print.
• Tone an entire print with more than one toner.
Selective Toning
Toning selective areas involves using a liquid or plastic
frisket material to cover the parts of the image that you don’t
want to tone. For best results with this technique, choose
scenes that have a distinct line between the areas that you
want to treat differently.
You can apply a liquid frisket material, such as Photo
Maskoid Frisket or Dr. Ph. Martin’s Frisket Mask Liquid,
with a brush. These materials are available from art-supply
stores.
You can also use sheets of clear self-adhesive frisket
material, such as Transpaseal or Grafix Frisket Film, sold for
airbrush work. These materials are available from art-supply
stores. After applying the sheet of frisket material to the
print, use a frisket knife or an X-Acto blade to cut carefully
around the areas you want to tone. Peel off the unwanted
frisket material by picking up a corner with tweezers.
After you have applied the frisket material, follow these
steps:
1. Soak the print in water (fiber-base for 10 minutes,
resin-coated for 2 minutes).
2. Place the print in the toning solution. Let the toner flow
freely over the uncoated portions of the print. Don’t
worry if the print buckles or curls during toning.
Note: If possible, keep the part of the print you don’t
want toned out of the solution in case the toner bleeds
under the frisket. If you can’t do this and the toner tends
to bleed, try skipping the presoak step.
3. Wash the print as recommended in the instructions for
the toner you’re using.
4. Remove the frisket material. You can usually remove
liquid frisket materials by rubbing your fingers gently
over the print while it is still in the wash. Remove Photo
Maskoid frisket by touching sticky tape to an edge.
When you use two or more toners sequentially, follow the
same procedure for each toner.
Multiple Toning
Multiple toning can change the appearance of a print in many
ways. For example, you can produce a print that has its
original warm image tone, as well as sepia, blue, and red or
orange tones, by using only Blue Toner and Sepia or Brown
Toner.
The exact hues you produce will depend on the paper type.
You may want to experiment with a selection of different
papers. Cold-tone papers will yield a truer red; warm-tone
papers will produce an orange hue.
This technique usually produces a density loss in the
shadow areas of prints. For best results, start with a print that
has higher-than-normal contrast.
First treat the print in KODAK PROFESSIONAL Sepia or
Brown Toner. Wash the print thoroughly. Then tone the print
with Blue Toner T-26. The red or orange tones will appear
after approximately 15 to 30 minutes in Blue Toner at
32°C(90°F).
