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Seraph · 06-25-2004, 01:09 AM

Well, the way it used to work was that if you wanted to have more then one copy of an image you wouldn't paint it, rahter you would use some form of printmaking. This really stated with woodcuts, which basically consisted of blocks of wood that had the image cut into them, and were then used to transfer the image onto paper or something similar. This was capable of producing some fairly impressive pieces Click here for an example. It didn't take long before someone thought of replacing the wood block with a piece of metal. This process, called intaglio, devolped over a long time. The earliest versions (which generally relied on etching or engraving the plates) were only capable of producing black-and-white images. Eventually once the ability to vary the tone of images was devolped, it became possible to generate color images using multi-plate processes Click here for an example.

06-25-2004, 01:09 AM	#5
Seraph Quintesson Join Date: September 12, 2001 Location: Ewing, NJ Age: 42 Posts: 1,079	Well, the way it used to work was that if you wanted to have more then one copy of an image you wouldn't paint it, rahter you would use some form of printmaking. This really stated with woodcuts, which basically consisted of blocks of wood that had the image cut into them, and were then used to transfer the image onto paper or something similar. This was capable of producing some fairly impressive pieces Click here for an example. It didn't take long before someone thought of replacing the wood block with a piece of metal. This process, called intaglio, devolped over a long time. The earliest versions (which generally relied on etching or engraving the plates) were only capable of producing black-and-white images. Eventually once the ability to vary the tone of images was devolped, it became possible to generate color images using multi-plate processes Click here for an example.