PRE|SETS
Scan a shoebox and you get every brown there is. One print was toned in a darkroom, one faded on a mantelpiece, one was photocopied in an office. This set puts them in one brown. Sepia Bath is the reference, a restrained sulphide tone with open shadows and low contrast. The rest each move one thing, so a whole box can be matched print by print.
Toners set the hue and the depth. Sulphide Toner carries the brown into the highlights, Walnut Toner takes the shadows deepest without going black, Amber Sulphide is the warmest, pushed toward yellow, and Chestnut Print lifts the yellow band for timber and autumn. Papers stand in for the stock the print was on: Albumen Print pale and early, Vellum Print soft for letters and flat originals, Manila Sleeve almost without contrast, Cabinet Card for a studio portrait with the blue band suppressed.
The Box holds the working presets. Archive Box is the conservative one for copy work, grain modest and contrast honest. Foxed Paper draws the corners in for damaged edges. Tea Stain and Attic Folio look handled and stored. Ledger Brown is the most neutral member, brown present but weak, for archives that dislike novelty.
Apply to a scan, apply to a frame you took this morning, and they sit on the same page.
