Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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When most people think about retouching photos, they immediately think of Photoshop. But long before computers there were other ways and today I show you one of them: As always, ,ore on my blog: https://blog.markus-hofstaetter.at/?p=11690
►youtu.be/J0VG7EuK7i4?si=4AExPRJggdYWacBA
►mywebvault.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/how-photo-retouching-worked-before-photoshop-mental-floss
►petapixel.com/2013/09/12/marked-photographs-show-iconic-prints-edited-darkroom

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Chapters:
0:00 antique retouching desk introduction
0:33 retouching without photoshop?
1:05 retouching a glass negative
2:29 preparing the salt print (including chemicals)
4:16 using the sun to create a print
5:00 finishing the salt print and gold toning it
7:25 the final result