"There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend" - Bob Ross

I'd never heard of this technique - very cool!

Loved watching this and thanks for sharing how to do this. I really liked how this ended up... rough but elegant art!

Bob Ross lol. I'd be interested in another video using Fuji pack film!

Finally got round to giving this a go. Because I don't do things by half, I thought it would be a nice idea to take a slice of our Christmas tree and lifted a polaroid of the tree onto the slice. I'm pretty pleased with it so it may become a tradition!

Thanks for introducing this technique Matt. I had great fun doing that tonight; I was surprised to see that the result turns out slightly bigger than the original photo.

very therapeutic watch, you read my mind when you mentioned bob ross!

This is something I'm going to do. Thanks for sharing Matt!!

I’m glad that I found your video!!! Thank you for sharing ☺️

Thanks Matt your videos are great.

Super helpful tutorial. Many thanks from Aus 👍

This is so cool I want to try it with my polaroids!

Haha that sweatshirt is awesome. Thanks for the share Matt!

Did some of these years ago, lots of fun. I used a crockpot of hot water & film that had only been shot 24-48 hours earlier. The emulsion comes off nice & easy, though I do remember a lot of globby gelatin in the water! Thanks for the vid, I'm gonna have to do more of these again soon. By the way, ever do Polaroid transfers? Also creates a cool, imperfect effect.

Great video and very much loved the Bob Ross reference!

@Matt Day The back black plastic is the negative. For color IP, you can reclaim that negative.

Hey Matt, I just tried and it was a lot of fun. Thanks for the tutorial. Dont know if it was just my image or because I used very hot water but it came of pretty much all by itself.

Very educational and inspiring, thank you Matt. Now maybe I can make something 'artistic' out of my impossible project rejected shots. 🙋

Jeez, I haven't done this for a long time. Brings back memories.

bro, your hoodie. yes.

well done, thank you for the tut

Awesome to have a video tutorial for this ..

Very cool never seen this done.

Love the comment about Bob Ross, bless him. Thanks this is really cool and hey, what instant film was this and what instant camera did you use.

Do you apply a coating like a varnish or fixative to preserve the emulsion lift on the paper?

I did it ! It was really easy ! Thanks :)

Love your vids Matt

This is realy amazing!!

Great video!! I'm having an issue where a pack and a half of film isn't peeling apart right. Instead of the white chemical part sticking to the cardboard it's sticking to the photo and trapping it in against the clear plastic. Trying to clean the white stuff off the photo smears it and ruins it...not sure what to do!

Really cool to do. So much fun! So great video idea! Have you ever bleached the fp-100c discards to get the negative out? That could be a great video to do similar to this.

i gotta try this sometime and love the bob ross style

Hi ! I love that technique, thank you for your video ! I have a question : Does it work with all the polaroids cameras or do I need a special brand ?

Hey Matt, I recently stumbled across this video, thanks for running us through the process. quick question, what exact size were those paper squares you used, looked like the perfect size for what I'm trying to do. kind regards.

i definitely wanna try this now!!

Very cool. I would be more interested however is transferring the Polaroid to a transparent film to use to make enlargements.

Coolest hoodie!

Kinda stressing watching the process ahahah! Thanks for sharing. I need to try it!

So great! Thank you

Hi man! Thanks for the tutorial! No matter how gently i go, my color polaroid (600) keep on ripping... Black and white go perfectly though. I've been going very gently, would you have any advice?

Love the hoodie 👌👌😍

Hi Matt, I hope you still read back comments from older videos. I've done an emulsion lift on some acrylic glass. When the photo dried however, it curled up and got loose from the glass. Any idea how to prevent this? Did I do something wrong?

I did transfers when 669 was available. I'm going to give this a try. Thanks for filming this.

Cool. I haven't seen this done in about 25+ years. We used to do polaroid transfers too, in addition to lifts. Glad you're helping keep the process alive by sharing it with your audience, Matt.

Love this!

Hey Matt love this channel and i want to thank you for always being honest and sharing so much knowledge with the film community. Im kind of new to the film shooting world. What do you know about nikkor glass with "thorium"? I saw this on youtube and now i am very concerned since there are kids in my home. Do you know what lenses have this? I have and old F2 camera and a few lenses : nikkor 20mm F4 , nikkor 50mmF1.4 pre ai and a 135mm 2.8 nikkor. i havent picked up my camera anymore since i saw this. I hope you have some information on this matter. I know there are alot of viewers and film shooters who are new to film and are not aware of this. Should i get rid of my lenses? I hope you get back to me i know your a busy guy and still take the time to make videos and help out alot. thanks again Matt.

Haha thank you very much I just remembered my childhood I have done it when I was a little kid about7-8 before that I’d carry papas camera and always would break my fathers cameras😂 from 1 to 5, but then got into it I did and many then you could glue it to you high school paper cover 😂😂👍👍✌🏼😎 Then civil war started back home and only just now I found my childhood passion and specially film tnx to You and some other KZfaqrs who do film

I will have to try this.

Hi Matt. I came to this old video to ask you if you ever tried emulsion lifts using the new Polaroid Originals Color film. I was able to do it with Impossible film, the same way you showed in this tutorial, but not with those new Polaroid Originals films (Color 600). The emulsion is too thin and there´s a transparent gel layer that sticks to the image layer an tears it apart when you manipulate it in the water... I tried warm water as well and didn´t work. Well...Just let me know if you ever tried the new films, if the emulsion lifts worked on them and if you have any tip ... I´m struggling!

Never knew something like this was possible :)

Matt, is is necessary to put a clear coat or say acrylic to set the image? Thanks

hola, muy bueno el video !! gracias! ahora una pregunta: cuando la emulsión se seca se me despega del papel. que puedo hacer? se vuelve rígida y se levanta del papel.

whaaaat this looks so cool, I'm going to try it with the fp100c film.

Love it man, I love it. I was wandering if it would work if I did dry glue, transferred it, them vacuum formed (I think it is) or laminated the photo, if it would keep its form :0 :D

I rubbed the caustic paste off under a tap and it made it clear.

Grazie per questo video molto interessante

think you've got a spot on your sensor? only gonna see it at smaller apertures and against bright and plain backgrounds

Hello, is this effective for a film that goes wrong? Like in a dark photo, because i have films like that... so i thought if the pic is dark...then the negative can retrieve the real photo or the captured photo?

Do the colours fade at all? Looks a little faded when it's finished, but can't tell if that's from the process itself or simply because it's on a different material now.

I once did the Emulsion transfer with just my fingers

love the Stranger Things sweatshirt

Do you need a gluing process to attach the emulsion to paper?

Hello Matt. Is easy to scan it after the whole process?

hello, how careful do you need to be to keep the white flaky chemicals going from the first warm water tray to the 2nd cold water tray and getting trapped between the emulsion and paper? thanks

did you scan this in? if so i would love to check it out!

looks like fun

Hi Matt! I know it's been a few years since you did this, but could you tell me which kind of polaroid paper you need to use? Thanks!

Very cool. I will be sure to try it. Once it dries, does the emulsion stay stuck to the paper pretty well? Or do you need to put it in a sleeve of some sort to preserve it? Love your videos. Keep at it!

would photo paper be best for this. I just wasn't clear on what kind of paper to use. This looks super cool and fun to do

Any chance that black plastic was the negative, similar to FP-100c?

Is it more difficult to use colour film in comparison black and white 600 film ?

would this work with FP100c or land camera polaroids?

so I could maybe do this and dry it on watercolor paper, use watercolor ground to paste it, and then paint over the emulsion??

This is beautifully done Matt Ross. You said you can't do this with instax film. Is there anything you CAN do creatively with instax?

Can a lift be done in layers to compost the colors

I have two questions 1) can you overlap 2 pictures when doing an emulsion lift? Like you do one first and then another one making them overlap a little? 2) once dried will it need to be "shielded" in any way? Thanks :)

Do you know if instead of a piece of paper I can just transfer it on a notebook or something?

so interesting nv knew about this

I'd like to see this done on a polaroid 20x24 print!:D

have you experimented with polaroid transparencies?

can I do the same process with the negative?

Would it conform to a canvas texture wwll?

damn it. I fell in love with this lifting thing ! i will try it ! is it working w/ instax? Thanks again for your good work (and a special thumbs up for your preach (amen) on the last video (y) )

Can this be done with Fuji instax?

what type of camera did you use

What type of paper did you use?

Hi, when i tried to tear the black part off before i put image into the water,I can only tear a clear plastic sheet off and black colour still lives with the image. I am just wondering why it happened??? I am a design student and really want to use this for my design project

How did you dry the paper afterwards so that it does not warp?

I just bought a polaroid this week, lol

What type of film do you need?

“As YoU cAn SeE oN tHiS cLeAr PiEcE oF pLaStIc”

Hey! Kinda urgent: Can you use old polaroid photos for this? I'm trying and i don't know if I'm just being impatient or if I'm doing something wrong

does this work with the instax fujifilm polaroids?

Hey, is there a way to take a digital photo and develop in the style of a Polaroid... so that we could do a emulsion lift with it later?...

Could you do fp-100c?

I tried this a few times. The first two times I tried boiling water. The emulsion lifted very easily but the edges curled up really tightly and I couldn't get them uncurled. The third time I tried microwaved water (4 minutes) and could not get the emulsion to lift. It tore as I was removing it.

Can u do this on metal

Can you use i-Type film for this?

Can you do this on instax mini film

Ok so please advise the steps for vintage Polaroids from the 70s ???????

So now I understand the "how", but the "why" is lost on me. What's different between this and just storing it in the original "packaging"?