Hacking the digital print : alternative image capture and printmaking processes, with a special section on 3D printing / Bonny Pierce Lhotka.

Remainder of subtitle taken from cover.

Includes index.

Preface / Ralph Nelson -- Foreword / Mark Osterman -- Basics. Introduction -- Materials -- Equipment -- Altered reality. Preparing for the shoot -- Mirrors and mylar reflections -- Distortion filters -- Lens modifiers -- Custom textures -- Gallery of work: Altered reality -- Mixed media photographs. Photographic mixed media -- Mixed media decals -- Image transfer to glass -- WonderSauce transfer process -- Gallery of work: Mixed media photographs -- New frontiers. Introduction to 3D printing -- Skin appliqué to 3D printed objects -- Hydrographic coloration of 3D printed objects -- Modern lithophanes -- Gallery of work: New frontiers.

This book redefines what it means to be a photographer. Learn how to create unique images using tools you make and modify yourself. Lhotka shows you how to use analog distortion filters, custom textures, and lens modifiers to create images. Learn how to re-create classic printmaking techniques using non-toxic digital alternatives, including a water-based transfer solution that's safe to use anywhere. The author shows you how to print on materials such as wood, glass, plastics, and metal. She shares her custom techniques for taking photographs and applying them to 3D-printed objects created with popular consumer 3D printers. Lhotka encourages you to take the techniques you'll learn in this book, hack them, and make them your own. With some techniques you will fail. It will be messy. You will try and have to try again. But in the process, you will make your own exciting discoveries, find solutions to your own problems, and create a body of work that is uniquely yours.