[Leica] Retouching enlargements experience?

[Ken Carney]

Yes, and I have seen Ansel Adams prints where the retouching dye had 
faded (I would still accept it as a gift).  I used to use the Spotone 
dyes for retouching prints (there was a learning curve) where the 
blemish was white.  Where the blemish was black, the only thing was to 
scrape it out with a knife and then use the retouching dye.  I don't 
know about making a digital copy.  I have had some limited success 
making them on an inkjet printer, but this was for large-format contact 
printing, platinum/palladium process where the paper hid a multitude of 
sins.  It's hard to imagine making a 35mm size digital negative, but 
maybe so.

Ken

On 2/18/2019 12:17 PM, Robert Baron via LUG wrote:
> A few years back the OKCLUG (Ken Carney and I) went to a local exhibit that
> included a number of prints of Arnold Newman's portraits of celebrities.
> They had been clearly retouched with pencils and the pencil dots had shrunk
> over the years.
>
> I used to do that too but I have no idea where my old prints are.  They are
> definitely not in museums.
>
> --Bob
>
> ===On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:13 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> wrote:
>
>> I have successfully retouched thousands of 16x20s and 11x14s with
>> pencils. Little dots. Nobody can see the retouching without a magnifying
>> glass. It is a very useful optical illusion. I always printed on
>> Polycontrast G, but I suspect pencils would also work with an E or X
>> finish.
>>
>> On 2019-02-17 19:57, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> I can recall watching my wife's parents do retouching of 5 x 7 studio
>>> portraits with very sharp pencils, filling flaws by placing very sharp
>>> dots on the emulsion side.  It is an art that must be learned by
>>> experience.  I'm not sure this could ever be done with 35mm.
>>
>>
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