How to Make a Polaroid Transfer Image

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni and I'm going to talk about how to make a Polaroid transfer image. Now Polaroid transfer image is an image that you would make using Polaroid film and a camera. Or you can use a certain type of copy system to make this image. And what you do is you let the Polaroid image develop only slightly after you've exposed it and peel the Polaroid apart. And what this does is it lets you transfer the undeveloped image onto a surface. Usually, wet water color paper. Now you can use fabric, but I find that watercolor paper works the best. You want a watercolor paper that's kind of heavy in weight. Preferably about a one hundred and forty pound weight watercolor paper. You want to use watercolor paper with a smooth surface to it. People make these images to look very artistic. Very painterly. Very unlike any other kind of image out there. I enjoy also scanning my images after I make them and making prints out of them. And that is how you would make a Polaroid transfer image."