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Tony Stephens, January 2004

In the 2001 Autumn Journal, I described a method of making enamel transfers using an inkjet printer. This autumn, my wife went to a digital photography class in Settle, where the tutor showed her how to "extract" line images from high contrast digital photographs. This extends the possibility of making enamel transfers to any high contrast digital image; a building, a townscape or a landscape. The technique does not work however with pictures comprising large bland surfaces with no contrasts.

The stages in the process are illustrated below, where a digital photograph of a neighbour's cottage was reduced to a line image, the line image then being converted to a single colour transfer using an inkjet printer (medium firing mazarine blue) before being fired onto a pre-enamelled blank (medium olive).

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