dye transfer

noun

, Photography.

1. a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
2. a print made by this process.

Example Sentences

Soon after he left the consulate to focus on photography around 1947, Yang became the director of the Northwest Institute of Photography and taught classes in new color methods such as Flexichrome, dye transfer, and Ektacolor, helping influence countless emerging photographers.

From Seattle Times

UC Davis has typically used dyes to identify individual primates but following the infant deaths “center staff changed procedures so they no longer dye-mark monkeys under six months of age and take other steps to minimize dye transfer”, the spokesman said.

From The Guardian

But those who choose to do so should place rug pads beneath these carpets to prevent two common problems – dye transfer, and carpet-surface erosion.

From Seattle Times

The images are spellbinding: small, exquisite and mostly in color of an unusually subtle kind, due to the complex dye transfer process Porter used.

From New York Times