Digital negatives for alternative processes

One day workshop, 10 am – 5 pm, March 8, 2025

Digital negatives are the crucial link between digital photography and analogue printing processes, controlling the tonal values in your print. Understanding how to make the perfect negative for your chosen process will allow you to translate any digital file, whether it was taken on your phone, digital camera or downloaded from the internet, into a unique handmade analogue print.

Every alternative process needs a specifically adjusted negative. This workshop will provide you with the technical knowledge and control necessary to adjust your negatives to a broad range of alternative printing processes.

Taking you step by step through the process in Photoshop, you will learn to make a customised negative for a cyanotype printing, a process that can be applied in the same way to any other alternative printing process.

All necessary materials are supplied.