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ArticleDigital Darkroom/Printing Techniques and How-Tos - by Jon Sienkiewicz, November 2, 2007

Black-and-white prints that have been hand-colored have an unmistakable appearance. Because there is a complete grayscale image underneath the pigment, these pictures have a sort of "image infrastructure" that exists nowhere else.

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