An editable two-ink poster
A composite PNG, a two-plate SVG and an editable project backup.
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Summer plates.
Five warm landscape plates, with two deliberately slipping out of line.
Reset one plate’s position to see where the colored edge came from.
Choose the included images or your own inside the studio. Applying keeps your current work as a local copy.
The transformation
From source to study.
The result below is an actual studio export with this recipe. The source image is part of the result; changing it creates a different work.
Wheat Field with Cypresses · Vincent van Gogh
Public domain · The Met Open Access (CC0) ↗
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The recipe
Structure first. Finish second.
TRACE structure
- 5 ink plates · Tonal bands
- Solid inks · medium detail
- Exposure 0 · Midtones 1.15
- Lightness boundaries: 20% / 38% / 55% / 73%
- Mid registration: horizontal 1.6%, vertical 0%
- Deep registration: horizontal -1.2%, vertical 1.2%
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Compose passes, in order
No photographic finish. The ink plates themselves make this image, so its colors and shapes can remain editable in SVG.
Your first change
Reset one plate’s position to see where the colored edge came from.
PNG or editable SVG. Cutting exports use aligned geometry rather than print registration. Photo finishes do not appear in SVG.
Develop this into a finished work.
A focal print with offset impressions
A clean PNG, an offset PNG, a layered SVG and a project containing the versions.
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