CHAPTER XI. 



ON COLOURING PHOTOGRAPHIC TRANSPARENCIES FOR LANTERN 

 SLIDES. 



giving directions for colouring lantern trans- 

 parencies, I am quite aware that many persons 

 will say at the outset that a good photograph is 

 better without any colour at all ; on the principle, I suppose, 

 that " good wine needs no bush." 



I quite agree with that opinion, and in colouring a trans- 

 parency of good quality, I should be inclined to describe 

 the operation more as tinting ; for the common method of 

 colouring by which photographs are blotted out and 

 drowned in a mass of pigment is simply atrocious. I 

 lately saw a photographic transparency for a lantern, which 

 was very beautifully and tastefully tinted, evidently by an 

 artistic hand. 



The owner of this picture saw no beauty in it, but com- 

 plained to me that he paid a long price for this thing, and 

 there was hardly any colour on it, just as if payment ought 

 to go by the amount of pigment stuck on the glass. 



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