Talk:Mezzotint
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[edit] Cleanup
I requested that this entry be cleaned up because I feel that it contains explanations that are only helpful to people who know about Mezzotints in the first place. I have taken a class and made my own mezzotints and yet even I am unsure what exactly is meant by "the image is then brought out by scraping smooth the surface" or "It is possible to create the image by only roughening the plate selectively, so working from light to dark." This last sentence, it must be said, is a grammatical mess. Also, one cannot just throw "Rockers have been in use since at least the eighteenth century" into a paragraph without defining what a "rocker" is in this context. I would fix the article myself except that I personally do not know that much about Mezzotints. What I do know is that this article, as it stands, is not going to improve my understanding. Saudade7 08:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I have expanded the text (not mine originally) a bit; but for example there was already a clear description of a rocker a line after the term was used.Johnbod 14:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
