I was almost there. I had a repeatable process for creating plates that produced good looking prints. I was still doing a bit too much levels and curves fiddling in Photoshop to get the image acetate ‘right’ though. I know deep down that this really wasn’t a repeatable, foolproof process because of this image specific tweaking. And the fact that my EDN curve was from a different screen/image exposure time pairing. My ‘repeatable process’ was all a bit hit and miss really. And I know deep down that this was a huge problem simply because it wasn’t repeatable.

I decided, however, to plough on with this bastard process for now – despite the fiddling – because the results were good (enough). I’d been at it for so long that I was drunk on having prints that were better than anything I’d previously created and that looked pretty damn good!

I was sort of running out of time as I wanted to have some photogravure images as part of my Oxfordshire Artweeks ‘open house’ exhibition event. I told myself I would come back to the process and do what needed doing to make it truly repeatable and of the highest possible quality. This would involve going back to the EDN process with my ‘solid’ 10/3 exposure time pairing.