Photo Maskoid®

Paint in Photo Maskoid® to the areas that need to be retained. The impervious “frisket” will remove nicely, leaving the open areas completely intact.

Retouching Black and White prints
Airbrush retouching and to some extent, dye retouching, on black and white photographs are resorted to when it is necessary to enhance the subject in the final reproduction, as used for advertising purposes. The "frisket" often forms an important part of the retouching operation and aids in defining and protecting a part of the photo print. Photo Maskoid® is quickly and easily applied with a fine pointed brush to the minutest details in the photograph. In minutes, a protective frisket is formed. After the completed airbrush operation, the Photo Maskoid® is lifted away with a piece of adhesive tape.

Retouching Negatives
The more technical phase of negative retouching principally used in the graphic arts and plate-making operations, find Photo Maskoid® an excellent staging frisket in the process of local dot reduction for tonal balance and contrast correction. Here, the quickly drying liquid frisket permits good visual application to large and small areas of negatives used in commercial work and especially in mapmaking. The safelight red of Photo Maskoid® performs as an opaque which retards the passage of actinic rays.

Retouching Color Prints and Transparencies
The most sophisticated type of retouching is applied on color prints and transparencies when it is required to correct color balance. Over the years, individual applicable techniques have become, to some extent, studio secrets. Regardless of these secrets, Photo Maskoid® lends itself as the effective frisket material used when modifying and selectively correcting the color balance in color prints and transparencies. The ease with which Photo Maskoid® is applied and the impermeable film that forms the protective membrane make Photo Maskoid® an essential part of the retouching operation.

Airbrush Rendering
Photo Maskoid® is also an excellent masking-out medium for the airbrush artist. The masking-out operation is simplified and convenient because the Photo Maskoid® forms a quick frisket upon drying, thus allowing for greater freedom when air-brushing with watercolors, inks or dyes.