Project 7: Cyanotype and Daguerreotype photography

For this project we explored through photoshop how to create a cyanotype and daguerreotype style photo digitally. You can usually achieve cyanotype and daguerreotype through film photography but by using brushes and photoshop we created images in these styles digitally.  Cyanotype photography is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue color to the image. This process was popular in engineering circles well into the 20th century. It was a simple low cost process which made it easy for engineers to make large scale copies of their work. Daguerreotype photographs are images that were formed on a highly polished metal surface, normally Sheffield plate. This technique was more common than the cyanotype technique. Using photoshop, we were able to recreate those two printing styles digitally.