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Blueprint

Cyanotype blue: white lines on a deep blue ground.

Blueprint: a print effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Blueprint in the studio

Controls

ground
A colour, #12395b by default.
line
A colour, #e6edf2 by default.
weight
Which tones become a line. The print is two-tone by nature — everything darker than this is drawn, the rest is ground
bleed
How far the line spreads in contact printing. This is where the whole softness of the edge comes from
wash
Blotches from uneven developing. They only lighten the ground — a blueprint has no dark stains, there is nothing there to add
fade
How far the edges of the sheet have faded, the way an old print bleaches from the border inward
grid
Strength of the drafting grid printed under the drawing
grid step
Distance between the grid lines
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.

Starting points

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