I've been experimenting with layering images in Photoshop, trying different opacities of overlay, to make composite images. here's an example of what I've been doing. It's one plate, inked up with 50:50 Van Dyke brown and Process Black. There are infinite possibilities with image manipulation in Photoshop, using more than one plate to make an image, and then with opacity and hue of ink at the printing stage.
I was thinking about how Photogravure gave the artist total control over the image, and stopped engravers adding their 'mark' - remember the waterlily leaves with faces on them? It also made me think of the famous Cottingley fairies photographof 1917, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/unexplained/cottingley_fairies.shtml
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