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Hacking the Digital Print: Alternative image capture and printmaking processes with a special section on 3D printing

By (author) Bonny Lhotka

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Donâ€™t bother reading this book unless youâ€™re ready to get your hands dirty. InÂ Hacking the Digital Print,Â artist Bonny Lhotka redefines what it means to be a photographer. For one thing, you don't always need Photoshop to alter the reality you capture through your lens. In this book, youâ€™ll learn how to create unique images using tools you make and modify yourself. Lhotka shows you how to use analog distortion filters, custom textures, and lens modifiers to create images that look likeÂ youÂ made them, not an app. Youâ€™ll also learn how to re-create classic printmaking techniques using non-toxic digital alternatives, including a water-based transfer solution thatâ€™s safe to use anywhere, whether itâ€™s the studio, classroom, or kitchen counter. Anyone can push a button and create a nice printâ€“there is little challenge in getting a high-quality image out of a desktop printer these days. Lhotka shows you how to take your work to the next level by printing on materials such as wood, glass, plastics, and metal. For the truly adventurous, Lhotka shares her custom techniques for taking photographs and applying them to 3D-printed objects created with popular consumer 3D printers. Part artist/part mad scientist, Lhotka has spent many hours experimenting, hacking, and tearing things apart to discover new ways to take, make, and print images. She encourages you to take the techniques youâ€™ll learn in this book, hack them, and make them your own. With some techniques you will fail. It will be messy. You will try and have to try again. But in the process, you will make your own exciting discoveries, find solutions to your own problems, and create a body of work that is uniquely yours. Â