Spotting a Photographic RC Print

Video Transcript

"Okay, so I have two prints in front of me that I'm going to spot right now. One is an eleven by fourteen fiber based print and the other is a five by seven RC print. This is where it gets kind of interesting because most of the time, working with fiber based papers is harder but in this case it's actually easier. The fibrous paper absorbs the Spot tone much faster than my RC print does so kind of a little bit of an opposite effect here. But what I do is again, I get my brush wet and I see that little spot on this woman's dress and all I want to do is fill that spot in. I want to use as little amount (whispering). Now what I want to do is I just want to make it so that it's hard to see. I don't want to go too dark. I want to start going light and I want to build up and I want it to slowly build that up and very carefully. Now you can rewash these prints. That's the one good thing. The Spot tone will wash right out of there. Now you can see that little dab just kind of did it right there. Now when you're looking at a print from about four feet away, you don't see that at all and that's really all you want to achieve. You're not drawing or painting on a print, you're just making it so that you just don't see it."