The Ilford manual of process work

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Discusses the many different photographic processes for color photography and different types of photography reproductions.

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The photographic equipment -- Focusing, setting to scale, adjusting the apparatus, testing the optical equipment -- The idea of colour -- Illumination of copy -- The studio and dark rooms -- Gelatino-bromide plates -- Colour filters -- Preparation and grouping of the originals -- The printing of line negatives on metal -- The etching of line blocks -- Routing, finishing and proving the plate -- Preparation and grouping of originals -- The screen-negative -- The printing of screen-negatives on metal previous to etching -- The etching and finishing of half-tone blocks -- Transferring and direct printing on to metal -- Reversing printing processes -- The photographic operations -- The etch in photogravure -- Principles of three-colour reproduction -- Polychromatic half-tone pictures -- The practice of colour separation -- Coloured inks -- Making the printing blocks -- Illustrations in two colours -- Polychromatic reproductions.