The Master Photographer's Toning Course

A Definitive Guide to Creative Toning Techniques

Tim Rudman

Highly recommended.

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Review from AlternativePhotgraphy

This is, as the title suggests, the definitive guide to toning. The book outlines sepia, selenium, gold, blue, copper, green and silver toning. It goes back to basics and tells you how to tone (or stain) with tea, coffe and gelatin dyes.

Apart from describing the different processes Tim also demonstrates techniques such as selective and multiple toning.

As all complete guides, it also ends with formulas, a glossary and chemical listings.

Highly recommended.

Publisher's description

Full of vital details on toning. The information is a model of clarity and easy to understand both for beginners and seasoned printers. The images are a great bonus too as they not only instruct but inspire. A great amount of work has gone into this book, information and knowledge on toning. A brilliant book.
Highly recommended.

This extensively illustrated and eminently practical book describes both entry-level and advanced toning techniques for the creative photographer and printer.

A chapter is devoted to each toner, allowing readers to enter at the level appropriate to their experience and to then develop their skills as far as they want too. In the author's words, this is a book to grow into rather than grow out of.

Using a system of First Steps, Second Steps and Further Steps, the normal use of simple off-the-shelf toning kits is explained and then developed further by exploring the more advanced and less familiar techniques for which they may be employed. Each theme is then expanded to include instructions and formulae for home-made toners that both save money and further expand the reader's creative options.

Processes and techniques described include the use of all the common and less common toners, singly and in combination, multi toner kits, selective toning, archival and negative toning, simple and advanced uses of bleaches and developers, dyes and the use of less conventional materials such as tea and coffee. Sections on print finishing and useful printing controls for toning are also included. Toned vs. untoned step wedges show the effect of each toner on highlight and shadow density and on contrast with different papers, in order to allow compensation at the printing stage for perfectly toned prints.

An invaluable reference, toners characterists tables, colour/toner 'search' charts, frequently asked questions, formulary and DIY section is included.

• Paperback - 208 pages
• (6 November, 2002) Argentum
• ISBN: 0817454659