Excerpt from The Photographic Colourist, a Manual for the Use of Amateurs: Giving Every Particular Required for Painting Lantern Slides and Other Transparencies, Colouring Diagrams, Preparing Lantern Slides Without the Aid of Photography, Blacking Out Backgrounds, Scratching in Details, Tinting Paper Prints

General directions Where to begin - Imitate nature Treatment of skies - White lights Distance - Neutral colours - Nearer objects Foregrounds Kind of photograph most suitable Fuzzy photographs.

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