Word: colored
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Once into his 40s, Homer rarely went anywhere without rag paper, sable brushes and the little pans of color. He took his working vacations in places he knew would give him subjects--the New England coast, the Adirondacks, the tumultuous rivers of Quebec, the Florida Keys and the dark palmetto-fringed pools of Homosassa, the bays and whitewashed coral walls of the Bermudas...
...white of the paper shining through thin washes of pigment. One has to work from light to dark, not (as with oils) from dark to light. It is hospitable to accident (Homer's seas, skies and Adirondack hills are full of chance blots and free mergings of color) but disaster-prone as well. One slip, and the veil of atmosphere turns into a mud puddle, a garish swamp. The stuff favors broad effects; nothing proclaims the amateur more clearly than niggling and overcorrection. It can be violated (Homer sometimes did his highlights by tearing strips of paper away to show...
Technicians are adding color to black-and-white classics like Casablanca, making Hollywood's top moviemakers...
...weekend's toughest tasks was to get color photos back to New York City quickly. The solution: a state-of-the-art relay system that converts images into computer digits and sends them via satellite. "This allows us to get pictures of Sunday events and still ship the magazine to readers at or near the usual delivery time," explains TIME Corporate Production Director Bob McCoach. To transmit the photos, Britain's Crosfield Electronics, maker of the complex system, rounded up the sophisticated and bulky equipment and shipped it by air from London to Reykjavik...
...TIME's Manhattan headquarters, the data were changed back into pictures at our high-tech facility known as IMPACT, for Image Processing and Color Transmission, where the magazine's stories and illustrations are assembled into pages each week. IMPACT then beamed the late-closing pages to TIME's U.S. and overseas printing plants. "Because the pages dealing with Reykjavik were held past deadline, we had to arrange special late crews at all ten U.S. plants," said Corporate Operations Manager Elaine Fry. "Extra delivery trucks were dispatched in some cities to rush the issue to the newsstands...