A Photographic Technique for Image Enhancement: Pseudocolor Two-Separation Process,

Abstract

A method for transforming each tone of gray in a black-and-white image into a different color, enabling viewers to extract more information. Using only two intermediate separations, red and blue, the process is even simpler and faster than the red/green/blue process reported in AD-717 143. It also gives a more evenly spaced range of hues. However, with the improveents described in the report, the three-separation technique has the greater flexibility. In the two-separation process: One separation is made from the original positive and developed; Another is contact-printed from the first--not emulsion-to-emulsion--and developed; The first is contact printed, emulsion-to-emulsion, on color film, using a red light source; With careful image registration, the second is contact-printed, emulsion-to-emulsion, on the same material under a blue light; The print is processed. Examples are included. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0729754

Entities

People

  • Carl Gazley Jr.
  • Roy Stratton

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Color Film
  • Dispersing
  • Dispersions
  • Emulsions
  • Image Registration
  • Light Sources
  • Materials
  • Photographic Chemicals
  • Photographic Emulsions
  • Photographic Materials
  • Resilience
  • Specialty Uses Of Chemicals

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Military Science

Technology Areas

  • Space