A Non-Silver Manual: Cyanotype
The chapter called “Cyanotype” of Sarah Van Keuren’s book “A Non-Silver Manual: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Palladium & Gum Bichromate with instructions for making light-resists including pinhole photography”.
Multi colored cyanotypes
Cyanotypes are usually blue. Or toned into a sepia color. Filipe Alves shows us how to get both blue and sepia into the same cyanotype.
Making a cyanotype pinhole in-camera?
The myth: A pinhole camera cannot be used to make cyanotypes! Malin Fabbri confirms the myth.
How to produce low-contrast cyanotype prints
Angelo Taibi digs out a cyanotype formula to make the prints less contrasty.
Cyanotype chemicals in a rusty old jar
The myth: Don’t use a brush with a metal ferrule! True or not? Malin Fabbri finds out.
Vinegar-developed cyanotypes: non-toxic midtone contrast control
Elizabeth Graves examines acetic acid development upon classic formula cyanotypes and disprove the myths about developing in vinegar.
Vandyke over cyanotype: a combination process with special effects
Elizabeth Graves examines the effects of ageing on the "blue vandyke" process.
Cyanotype photograms
An extract from Ruth Brown’s book Cyanotypes on Fabric, A blueprint on how to produce… Blueprints!
The digital camera, the cyanotype and grain
Jim Read calibrates his digital camera to make cyanotype printing even better.
The New Cyanotype process (Ware)
The cyanotype process, also known as the blue print process was invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 and is still performed today by many darkroom enthusiasts.