I would love to know how to get burned,worn looking edges around the image. Someone had suggested using a glass negative carrier but the information stopped there. Thanks in advance!

-- Christina Reilly (tcreil1@banet.net), January 14, 1999

Answers

The trick is to project alittle more than just the image area of the negative onto the enlarger baseboard and paper and then using the enlarger head height to "crop" out the amount of the burn you don't want. The burn is a result of the clear negative area around the image. Using a glass negative carrier, it's possible to project virtually all of the negative, assuming a mask isn't being used. With a glassless carrier, it's possible to carefully file out some of the carrier area to allow more of the negative area to be projected. Of course you are forced to use the entire negative for the image, so cropping into a negative isn't possible. I would like to hear some other possible procedures to do this. I hope this helps!

-- Bob Tipton (BTIP487@msn.com), January 15, 1999.

Or double-expose the paper. This is how some of us get thin black lines around the image (which doesn't need to be full frame). The details are somewhere in this forum.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan.Gibson@technologist.com), January 17, 1999.

The trick is to file the edges of your negative carrier. the more filing you do, the "rougher" the effect. Use a metal file.

-- Ellie M. Diaz (insemd@langate.gsu.edu), February 16, 1999.