Riso negative positive

From Publication Station

Riso tryouts with different paper with gold and grey ink

Choosing the paper


  • Our paper options in this exercise: grey, white, sketch and black

If you use a darker or colourful sheet of paper the image will be inverted. You can play with that idea by inverting the colours of your document.

Inverting your file in photoshop


  • Turn your image into grayscale by Image>Mode>Greyscale

  • Invert the hues by going Image>Adjustments>Invert or CMD I

  • When printing from Photoshop you can also Click print go to Functions and check the Negative box

Printing and the effects

Gold ink

  • White paper

  • Sketch paper

  • Grey paper

  • Black paper