How to contact print without showing the rebate?

[Randy]

You also don't have to coat out to the borders either. A coated rectangle slightly smaller than the border can work if the negative isn't cropped too tight or doesn't need to be the normal rectangular shape.

I think that is what I will try first. I think I have watched a few videos where they coat an area slightly smaller than the neg.

[Bill Burk]

You could double-burn... Make a blackout rectangle the size of the image you want to protect from the second burn.

Then you would make everything black on the print outside the blackout shape, which could be crisp, serrated, soft, shaped, decorated, double-lined... Any number of ideas.

Me personally? I like the look of the brush marks, the original film rebate and a step wedge. But I can imagine a thin border could be tastefully done.

[Kimberly Anderson]

I get that you want what you want...but after trying to get what you want, I predict that you will decide to change what you want and will want something else. I predict that the want that you will arrive at will include the rebate area.

Good luck. It'll be an interesting journey and you will probably learn a lot.

[Barry Kirsten]

Most people seem to do alt processes via an inkjet internegative, either to allow enlargement of the original or to safeguard their precious and irreplaceable camera negative. Scanning your original neg (if possible), cropping out the film holder rebates, then making the internegative would solve your problem and not stop you displaying brush marks if you want them.

[brucep]

If you print to maximum black (blue) then the clear rebate should print out the same colour as the area outside the negative.

[koraks]

If you print to maximum black (blue) then the clear rebate should print out the same colour as the area outside the negative.

In my experience, it doesn't though. It always remains faintly visible.

[mdarnton]

What about cropping slightly by making your own masking frame on the neg or paper using pinstriping tape? That would make a narrow white border to replace the "mess", exposing everything inside and outside of the line. http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...nstriping+tape

[matthew blais]

I use a masking film and tape the edges of the neg to it to give a clean border on the paper around the image.
Brush strokes still show outside that

[Randy]

Matthew, very nice. I will give that a try as well. Thanks all for the suggestions.

[Randy]

Please don't tell him I am using his first name...