n
(historical) The process of electroplating a copper engraving with iron or steel.
n
A method of relief etching on wood, metal, or stone by means of a coating of compressed chalk, invented by Louis Schonberg in 1841.
n
(photography) An aerial photograph.
n
The activity or technique of photographing the earth's surface from an aircraft, rocket, etc.
n
A device for taking photographs from the air.
n
A branch of surrealist art in which a three-dimensional object is used as a stencil.
n
A graphic form, popularized by Yaacov Agam, that uses lenticular printing to create the illusion of kineticism.
n
Abbreviation of aerial photography. [The activity or technique of photographing the earth's surface from an aircraft, rocket, etc.]
n
(historical) A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.
n
(photography) An early photographic technique, similar to zincography or lithography, using paper impregnated with an aluminium salt.
n
The art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography.
n
A form of printing plate made of a sheet of aluminium.
n
(photography, historical) An early type of photograph in which a glass negative appears positive when displayed on a black background.
n
An instrument for making accurate engravings of any embossed object, such as a medal.
n
The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; used in representing coins, bas reliefs, etc.
n
An image created using photosensitive material taken from plants.
n
(historical) A printing process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin, or (later) any similar process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin.
n
An early photograph produced by means of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic dyed grains of potato starch under silver halide emulsion.
n
The production of autochrome photographs.
n
A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
n
(historical) A process of photo-engraving akin to autotype.
n
A drawing produced by autolithography
n
(dated, countable) An early form of photograph produced using autotypy.
n
(archaic) A process by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which further prints can be made.
n
(dated, photography) An early photographic process that produced autotypes using a carbon pigment.
n
A part of a kymograph that draws scales and/or axes on the output graph
adj
Fitted with a biochip.
n
The recording of a breathprint in order to identify an individual or to diagnose a disease.
n
(photography) A process for preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.
n
(historical) A mechanical device that calculates and prints the elapsed time between two events.
n
A person who makes calotypes.
n
(photography) an early photographic print made by soaking a carbon tissue in potassium bichromate
n
The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
n
A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.
n
An artwork produced by chalcography.
n
An engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.
n
engraving on copper or brass
adj
Engraved by a voltaic battery.
n
(art) A form of experimental artwork made by painting with chemicals on photographic paper or similar.
n
Any mechanical engraving process depending upon chemical action; specifically, a process of zinc etching not employing photography.
n
(historical) A process for obtaining casts in relief from an engraved zinc plate. A fusible metal is heated so that it melts and fills the hollows of the engraving, which is then destroyed using hydrochloric acid.
n
(photography) A photographic technique in which one side of the subject, for example a face, is well lit and the other is in shadow.
n
(television, film) The use of a particular colour (usually either green or blue) as a key in a TV studio in order to allow one image to be partially superimposed upon another, seamlessly
n
Alternative form of chromotype [(historical) A sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a chromolithograph]
n
(chiefly historical) A color print produced by chromolithography.
n
A collotype image produced in two or more colours
n
(obsolete) chromolithograph
n
(obsolete) chromolithography
n
Alternative form of chromolithograph [A print made by chromolithography.]
n
A form of lithography for printing pictures in colour.
n
(dated) colour photography
n
(historical) A sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a chromolithograph
n
(dated) The printing of text in colour
n
A woodcut produced in colour.
n
The art or technique of producing chromoxylographs.
n
(historical) A single photographic frame in chronophotography.
n
(photography) An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.
n
A document written or printed in gold ink.
n
A photograph taken on paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of gold chloride.
n
A reproduction of a film transparency on photopaper, made using a dye-destruction positive-to-positive photographic process.
n
An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
n
A printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as cardboard or wood).
n
An emulsion of silver chloride in collodion, formerly used in photographic printing.
n
(dated) A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
n
(countable) An image produced by this process
n
(historical) A rotogravure produced in color.
n
(photography, historical) A color print that is produced by combining the images from three photo-engraved plates, each contributing a single primary color (red, blue, or yellow).
n
Alternative form of colortype [(photography, historical) A color print that is produced by combining the images from three photo-engraved plates, each contributing a single primary color (red, blue, or yellow).]
n
(dated) A retouched photographic collage formerly used in sensationalist journalism.
adj
Reproduced by the copygraph technique.
n
(photography) A cyanotype print
n
(uncountable) An early photographic process employing paper sensitized with a cyanide.
n
The production of cyanotypes
n
An instrument for obtaining drawings from the mouldings of Gothic architecture.
n
One who takes daguerreotypes.
n
The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
adj
modified by descreening
n
(dated) A colour photograph produced by superimposing a translucent coloured positive over a strong uncoloured one.
n
The process of engraving dies.
n
(historical) An instrument used for double writing, such as one for producing embossed writing for the blind and ordinary writing at the same time.
adj
(computing) Relating to authentication schemes where the user has to recall and reproduce a drawing or image.
n
(photography) A digital single-lens reflex camera.
n
Any picture printed in two shades of the same colour, such as a duotype or duograph.
n
A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.
n
An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of pantograph.
adj
Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
n
A machine used in gravure printing
n
A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electrotyping, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.
n
the act or process of making electrotypes
n
The process of producing electrotype plates.
n
(art) A movement originating in the Soviet Union, promoting the use of film and photography for documentary purposes by the working class.
n
Alternative form of femtophotography [(photography) A method of photography using sub-picosecond pulses of light (usually around 10⁻¹³ seconds, or 100 femtoseconds, long) to illuminate the subject of the photograph, allowing the propagation of the light pulse to be viewed directly.]
n
An early photographic process in which the image is made on an iron plate having a sensitized surface film.
n
One who produces ferrotypes.
n
(photography, historical) An early additive colour photography process that could produce a picture in natural colour with a single exposure.
n
A picture printed from a plate of this kind.
n
A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.
n
(historical) A form of zincography.
n
A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.
n
A process similar to etching in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.
n
(art) carving or engraving on precious stone
n
The practice of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
n
A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or zinc oxide is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
n
The art or process of engraving on gypsum.
n
An image created by the harmonograph.
n
(historical) An old printing machine that involves transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.
n
(historical) The use of a hectograph to duplicate documents.
n
Alternative form of hectograph [(historical) An old printing machine that involves transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.]
n
(obsolete) A heliochrome; a photograph in natural colours.
n
(dated) The art of producing colour photographs.
n
The process of photographic engraving.
n
A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
v
To record by means of holography.
n
The art of writing or engraving on glass.
n
A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass.
n
(photography) A photograph with the focus in the far distance.
n
(photography) A measure of film sensitivity or brightness, derived from the ISO standard.
n
The production of ivorytype pictures.
n
A late 19th or early 20th century device for duplicating documents that use colored ink, consisting of a tray with a rubbery substance that takes an impression of the document and then transfers it onto blank sheets of paper.
n
An early photograph produced using an organic salt of iron, preferably the ferric oxalate.
n
A reproduction produced by this process.
n
A process for making copies of paintings that are painted on a pretreated canvas using a special press, which reproduces the texture of the brushstrokes as well as the colour, but destroys the original in the process.
n
(archaic) A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.
n
(archaic) The study of keraunographs (figures or pictures impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere).
n
(dated) An early colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914, which photographed and projected a black-and-white film behind alternating red and green filters.
n
The art of making images from inkblots.
n
A certain brand of photographic film.
n
(historical, photography) An early form of polaroid camera
n
(historical) A collotype process in which the printing surface is a sheet of gelatin fixed upon a zinc plate.
n
Abbreviation of lithography. [The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.]
v
To create a copy of an image through lithography.
v
To print using the technique of lithography.
n
The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.
n
A print made by lithography.
n
A picture produced by this process.
v
(transitive) To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy.
n
The art or process of making a kind of hard stereotype plate, by pressing into a mould, taken from a page of type or other matter, a mixture of shellac and fine sand, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.
adj
subjected to the livescan fingerprinting system
n
(cinematography, specifically) A color filter.
n
The music industry's practice of producing ever louder versions of recorded music by mastering albums to such an extent that it distorts their sound quality.
n
A photocopy that is greatly enlarged in size.
n
The mechanical reproduction of documents.
n
(dated, photography) An enlarged print
n
(dated, photography) enlargement
n
Alternative form of melainotype [A ferrotype or tintype.]
n
(photography) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates.
n
A print made by metallography.
n
A process for utilising metal plates in a manner similar to lithographic stones.
n
Any photographic process that transcends photographic processes, comments on photographic practices, or critiques photographic processes.
n
(historical) A multicolored picture having the colors printed via photolithography and then overprinted in black or blue collotype for the outlines.
n
Microfilm, microfiche or similar materials.
n
An ancient Jewish form of calligram, using tiny Hebrew letters to form designs.
n
(film, historical) An early machine allowing a film editor to view the film while editing it.
n
(photography, historical) A photographic process based on the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble.
n
Alternative form of Nipkow disk [A mechanical, geometrically-operating image scanning device, a fundamental component of early mechanical television.]
n
(art) A type of chromolithograph, using oil paint on canvas, that attempts to imitate oil painting
n
The art or process of producing the pictures known as oleographs.
n
The recording produced by an ondograph.
n
(dated) A photograph taken on opalescent glass.
n
An electromechanical device that selectively raises small rods over the darker parts of a document, and thus enables blind people to read printed material that has not been transcribed into Braille.
n
A wand-like device for optical character recognition.
n
(photography) A photographic print on glass, decorated with gold leaf or coloured with a gold pigment.
n
(countable, photography, dated) An orthochromatic plate.
v
(photography) To make orthochromatic
n
An image composed of multiple orthophotos
n
An early colour photography process using two glass plates: a colour screen plate, with red, green and blue filters, and a standard black-and-white negative plate.
n
The process of merging panchromatic and multispectral images to increase colour resolution
n
Alternative form of pantograph [A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid.]
v
To engrave by means of a pantograph (parallel linkage) system.
n
One who uses a pantograph.
n
The copying of drawings using a pantograph.
n
(historical) An early apparatus for reproducing documents by means of a paper stencil and corrosive ink.
n
direct current electrical power transmitted through microphone cables to operate microphones that contain active electronic circuitry
n
The use of a mobile phone to take photographs.
n
(dated) The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
n
All commercial aspects of the processing of photographs apart from simple developing and printing
n
A method of offset printing that uses photomechanical plates
n
Alternative spelling of photo artist [(photography, art) A person that uses photographic equipment to create art]
n
The art or process of decorating pottery with photographically prepared designs.
n
(historical) A colorized image produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates.
n
Alternative form of photochrom [(historical) A colorized image produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates.]
n
The art or process of printing color photographs.
n
A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.
n
A coloured print made by photomechanical means.
n
The art of making photochromotypes.
n
The art or process of reproducing colours by photography.
n
The art of recording or measuring intervals of time with a photochronograph.
n
A machine that performs photocomposition.
n
One who produces photoconceptual artworks.
v
To document with photographs
n
photographic documentation
n
A person or device that photodocuments
n
A piece of sheet metal containing a photographic image of an engineering design
n
(dated) An electrotype plate formed in a mould made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.
v
To make a photoengraving of an image
n
enhancement of photographic images, typically by digital means
n
A photolithographic etching process.
n
(informal) A photographer, especially a professional one.
n
The art or process of making photoelectrotypes.
n
gelatin, coated on a glass plate, that carries an image to be printed by the collotype process
n
(obsolete) A photograph.
n
(photography) The various photographic techniques, such as lighting, focus and framing, used to make a subject look more attractive.
n
A photograph made without using a camera; normally by placing an object in contact with photosensitive paper and exposing it to light
v
(transitive, intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
n
One who is photographed.
n
(dated) One who produces photographs.
n
The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
v
To print by this process.
n
(informal) A keen photographer.
n
The identification using a photograph
n
photographic interpretation
n
An expert at photointerpretation
n
a person who practices photolithography
n
(printing) A lithographic procedure in which printing plates are made using a photographic process.
n
(obsolete) A photo booth.
adj
of or relating to any of several methods of printing via a plate which has been prepared photographically, and can contain both text and images
n
A photomechanical process similar to collotype.
n
The art or practice of using the photophone.
n
An electromechanical-optical machine that exposes a latent image on a medium by means of a computer-controlled light source.
n
Any print made by a photomechanical process.
n
Any printing process that involves photography
n
(photography) The making of aerial photographs as a means of military reconnaissance, especially of potential targets.
n
sampling by means of photographs
n
A device used in photoscreening
n
(photography, art) A serigraph made from an existing photograph
n
(photography, art) The production of photoserigraphs
n
A photocomposer; a machine for photosetting.
n
(dated) The transmission of sound by means of light.
adj
Relating to a photomechanical process for making reproductions in natural colors by three printings.
n
A metal printing block, used in the photogravure process
v
(transitive) To typeset by a phototypesetting process.
n
A printing process that generated columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper, using a phototypesetter
n
A photomechanical method of printing made to resemble traditional metal typography
n
The art or process of producing phototypes.
n
A group analysis method combining photography with grassroots social action. Participants are asked to represent their communities or express their points of view through taking, presenting and collaboratively interpreting photographs.
n
A process in which a photograph is printed on wood to use as a template for engraving
n
A print made using photozincography
n
(historical) Synonym of pistolgraph
n
(historical) A photograph taken by means of pistolgraphy.
n
(historical, photography) The use of an early miniature camera shaped like a pistol.
n
(historical) A device for tracing and reproducing drawings.
n
(printing) A form of printing from a flat surface, as opposed to a raised or incised one.
n
(uncountable) A method of making photographic prints using platinum salts.
n
A camera that develops its own film.
n
The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone; a form of lithography.
v
(obsolete, Britain, photography) To take such a series of photographs.
n
(dated) A mechanical instrument for multiplying copies of a writing, resembling multiple pantographs.
n
(historical) A copy of a print or document made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas that permeates the original.
n
The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
n
(historical) A kind of checkwriter.
n
A hand-held tool, with a heated tip, used in pyrography.
n
An artist who practises pyrography
n
A decoration or design so produced.
n
(photography) Any photographic process involving the use of heat to fix the picture.
n
A stave created using rastra.
v
To make a photograph of another photograph, where both photographs are produced with the daguerreotype photographic process.
n
(art, photography, rare) The further appreciation of a photograph or picture which reveals insights into that image which were not recognized or appreciated at the time of original capture.
n
(art) The painting, or literary description, of mean or sordid things; especially still-life or genre painting.
n
A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then rapidly developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed.
n
A print made by such a method.
n
(art) Rotoscoping, especially when assisted by motion capture technology.
adj
(obsolete, photography) Describing a photographic print process that used salts of silver, with smaller amounts of platinum and iron
n
A perspective representation or general view of an object.
n
(historical) A method of laying down the sections of engineering work in railways.
n
an autographic device to test the strength of raw silk
n
One skilled in siderography.
n
A 19th-century process of reproducing steel-engraved designs for printing. The design is engraved on a steel block, then hardened and used to transfer a raised-image version to a steel roller under heavy pressure. The roller is then hardened and used as a die to impress duplicate images on printing plates for transferring to paper by the intaglio method.
n
(photography) A photographic print using a pigment based on iron
n
A geometric drawing toy consisting of a set of plastic gears and toothed rings.
v
(transitive, informal) To conceal (data) by means of steganography.
n
A steganographic analyzer
n
(historical) An image produced by stenochromy.
n
A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
n
A technique used to examine the surface of a metal for sulfide inclusions
n
An early photograph produced on paper coated with silver iodide.
n
printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object.
n
A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.
n
A device that allows its operator to draw a freehand sketch over a motion picture image
n
An image (as for example of a slice of wood) obtained by first wetting the object slightly with an acid, then taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this impression
n
A photograph produced by thoughtography.
n
(photography, chiefly attributive) The use of camera movements to simulate a miniature scene in the resulting photograph.
v
(transitive) To produce a tintype image of.
n
(dated) shadowgraphy (producing silhouettes as a form of entertainment)
n
(military) Photography obtained by simultaneous exposure of three cameras systematically disposed in the air vehicle at fixed overlapping angles relative to each other in order to cover a wide field.
n
(uncountable) A photomechanical engraving and printing technique.
n
(historical) A device used by photographers for printing vignettes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture whose edges become opaque by gradual degrees.
n
A print made by vitreography.
n
A printmaking technique using a glass matrix instead of the traditional metal, wood, or stone.
n
(archaic) In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode.
n
Reproduction of documents by means of the diazo chemical process.
n
A photograph transmitted by telephotography.
n
(uncountable) A photomechanical printing process in which a relief pattern in gelatin is hardened and pressed against a metal plate, producing an intaglio.
n
a photocopy produced by xerography
n
a photocopying process in which a negative image formed on an electrically charged plate is transferred as a positive to paper and thermally fixed
n
Work produced by this means.
n
(rare) The art of making xylographs.
n
(art) The art of burning pictures onto wood.
n
Printing using the medium of wooden blocks.
n
(informal, dated) A line or half-tone block etched on zinc plate, used in zincography.
n
An engraving made with such a plate.
n
A lithographic method of producing engravings using zinc plates
n
(historical) A photographic print produced by coating zinc with bitumen, gelatin, etc. and exposing it under a negative.
n
(photography) Ellipsis of ZLR camera.
n
(historical) A subtractive tricolor motion picture film process.
adj
(photography) Obviously characteristic of a zoom lens
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