Invented in 1903 by Auguste and Louis Lumière, autochrome was the only colour photography technique available to amateur photographers until 1955. The principle was quite simple: three layers of potato starch emulsion stained in the red, green and blue primary colours, applied to a panchromatic glass plate (in other words, a black and white plate).

In this workshop we will be reproducing the grain effect and the pastel shades of autochrome photography with Photoshop.




Contents:

- Creating a Panchromatic Background

- Creating the Filtering Channels

- Developing Autochrome

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