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Surreal solarisation

You can use the Tone Curve panel in Photoshop to emulate the darkroom-based solarisation technique made famous by surrealist photographers such as Man Ray. This film-developing technique harks back to the 1920s. At first glance, abecome white and vice versa. In solarised images, only some of the tones are reversed.

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