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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

Forget digital RGB, this little-known historic photography technique created golden images

Arches of a building.

Photographers have been finding creative ways to stylize images with color since long before digital RGB.

Back in the late 19th to early 20th century, one of these techniques was orotone, which involved printing an image on glass backed with gold-colored paint to create a shiny and luxurious golden appearance.

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