Chapter 29

Manipulating Emulsion

There are several ways exist on how to alter an instant
picture's appearance. Loosing its conventional photo-appearance,
a manipulated emulsion, is the one in which some of its
emulsional layers have been somehow disturbed, either by having
them being removed by a certain amount of the emulsional
ingredients or added some layers of it to the existing ones, in
some other cases, where each layer is directly associated with a
certain primary color. Scratching the damp surface of an instant
print carefully, using a sharp tool such as a scalpel blade,
knife, a scissors, or a needle, you can remove parts of emulsion,
layer by layer, and thus, removing undesired colors in your
special effect image. Thus, scraping part of the emulsion from an
existing instant print is considered to be one technique, as it
was done in these three photos, while drawing with a marker on
the white resin coated or even deeper, on its clear-acrylic-made base as it is was done to this photo of the hub-caps, or adding
the emulsion by coating it on a suitable image area, where the
surface allows for it.

Both of these techniques could be combined
into one process. Scratch the surface of the image where you wish
your colors to be altered, then apply a new emulsion coating.