Prep Spot Tone for Spotting Photographic Prints

Video Transcript

"So there are different types of Spot tone. This is a number three that I'm going to load onto my brush today. I poured a little bit in the cap right here. Number three is about a standard. This is a number two. You can kind of see they correlate. This would be for like a warmer toned paper or for a sepia toned paper or for some papers I can actually combine the two and the three, but for today I'm just going to use that number three. This is called loading my brush and what I did was I poured a little bit of that Spot tone in there and a little goes a super long way. I just got the tip of my brush wet with it and then I put it down and away. Now what I do is I have a piece of paper and this is almost like my blotting paper. I'm just going to blot a lot of that out of there and really a little goes a super long way. I keep looking at it and then the next step is a little bit of water. I get that water to dilute that ink on my brush and I technically want it to get as light as I possibly can with still seeing a little bit of tone. You can see how that's really starting to fade right there. That's exactly where I want it before I start trying to print, spot my print."