The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media (Paperback)

In The Last Layer–the follow-up to Digital Alchemy, her successful book on alternative printmaking techniques–Bonny Lhotka teaches how to make prints that take their inspiration from early printmaking processes. In this book, Lhotka shows readers step-by-step how to create modern-day versions of anthotypes, cyanotypes, tintypes, and daguerreotypes as well as platinum and carbon prints. She also reinvents the photogravure and Polaroid transfer processes and explores and explains groundbreaking techniques for combining digital images with traditional monotype, collograph, and etching press prints. By applying these classic techniques to modern images, readers will be able to recreate the look of historical printmaking techniques and explore the limits of their creative voice. Best of all, the only equipment required is a desktop inkjet printer that uses pigment inks, and a handful of readily available materials and supplies–not the toxic chemicals once required to perform these very same processes.
 
Leveraging her training as a traditional painter and printmaker, Bonny Lhotka brings new innovations and inventions that combine the best of centuries of printmaking technique with modern technology to create unique works of art and photography. After years of experimentation and development, these new processes allow alternative photographers, traditional printer makers, and 21st century digital artists to express their creative voice in ways never before possible. 

在《最後一層》這本書中，Bonny Lhotka繼她成功的書籍《數位煉金術》之後，教授如何製作從早期印刷技術中獲得靈感的印刷品。在這本書中，Lhotka逐步向讀者展示如何創造出現代版本的花色印刷、青色印刷、錫版照片、銀版照片以及鉑金和碳印刷。她還重新詮釋了光壓版和拍立得轉印的過程，並探索和解釋了將數位影像與傳統的單色印刷、拼貼版和蝕刻版印刷相結合的開創性技術。通過將這些經典技術應用於現代影像，讀者將能夠重新創造出歷史印刷技術的外觀，並探索他們創造力的極限。最重要的是，所需的唯一設備是使用顏料墨水的桌面噴墨印表機，以及一些易於獲得的材料和用品，而不是過去執行這些過程所需的有毒化學品。

借助她作為傳統畫家和版畫家的訓練，Bonny Lhotka帶來了結合數個世紀的印刷技術和現代技術的新創新和發明，創造出獨特的藝術品和攝影作品。經過多年的實驗和發展，這些新過程使得替代攝影師、傳統印刷製作者和21世紀的數位藝術家能夠以前所未有的方式表達他們的創造力。