Bromoil print in PS?

I am interested in learning how to create a "Bromoil" like print in Photoshop. Any ideas or

advise? Thanks

Here's some ideas: The keys to bromoil (or gumoil, or collotype, or several other "brushed/lithographic" techniques based on photoimages, are 1. lower the contrast and blur the image slightly (a 7 pixel gaussian blur "faded" to about 25% +/-, in this case); 2. an uneveness to the tonality (added via a heaviliy faded "clouds" rendring filter), and then the addition of the sketchy brushed ink look - via a sequence of appropriate brush/texture filters, all heavily faded back to keep the photographic image predominate: the filters: sumi-e, conte crayon, photocopy, dry brush, film grain, and poster edges. Some of the fading was done in other than "normal" modes, such as overlay or darken or lighten - play around.

 

Finally I added the over-brushed border (sloppily) and a sandstone texturizer filter (also faded) for the "Arches paper" look - which you can skip if you want a plain gelatin paper look instead.

 

I actually made a series of real collotype prints in college - similar to bromoil except using bichromate to sensitize and harden the gelatin for accepting the ink, instead of silver and bleach. Using red ink can give these a real art-nouveau or craftsman appearance - in PS just go into curves and raise the left end of the red curve to 245 or so to make everything black or gray a shade of red.<div></div>

Here's the original image for comparison:

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/313928

...and you can use the same basic image - taken into RGB and playing with the color-channel curves - to simulate "hand-coated-emulsion" processes such as cyanotype or van dyke brown.<div></div>

Great ideas and images, Andy,

Thanks Andy. i will give it a try. Durr