Firstly, I took my photo that I had chosen to use and inverted it using photoshop.
Secondly, I added the lyrics of the song that went with that photo.
Next, I printed each photo off onto acetate.
Then, using the cyanotype paper I had painted and left to dry for a few days before I placed my acetate on top, placed it in the lightbox under a UV light and placed a pane of glass over the top to keep the acetate flat and to allow for the clearest outcome. I then left it in there for 1 hour.
After the one hour was up, I placed the paper, upside down, into a tray of running water. By placing my cyanotype into the water, the water-soluble iron salts are washed away, while the non-water-soluble blue remains in the paper, giving the cyanotype its distinctive blue colour.
Finally, in order to speed up the darking process and to fix the colour I soaked my cyanotypes in a mix of hydrogen peroxide and water.
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