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• Hard-ground 
• Removing hard-ground with diluted ammonia solution. 
• Extending the life of the photo polymer film. Particularly useful for the Dove-Howardtype technique. 
• Used as a block-out for Intaglio-type techniques.
• Stop-out varnish two coats. 
• Use to produce tusche like washes either by diluting with water or reworking dried areas with ammonia and water. 
• Direct mark making resist method. Paint Vaseline, vegetable oil or baby oil onto plate and coat with Future. Remove oil with alcohol. 
• Sugar or rock salt can be dropped into the wet Future. The Future is allowed to dry after which the salt or sugar removed before etching. 
• Crayon Resist. Paint crayon on to plate and wash down with Future. Remove crayon mark with heat from hair dryer or Citra-sol. 
• Reworking relief areas of the plate. Coat with Future and use a mild ammonia solution to selectively remove Future where plate tone is wanted.
• Re-etching the relief areas. Coat the plate with Future and sand the relief surface with 600 grit wet and dry sandpaper. The relief areas then can be etched. 
• Sandpaper aquatint. Run an acrylic coated plate through the etching press with sandpaper on top to make aqua tint

• When the plate is dry, cover the back with contact paper or overlapping strips of plastic, self-adhesive (Scotch brand) wrapping tape to prevent the ferric chloride from biting the back of the plate.

The FUTURE hard-ground can be easily removed with a 10% soda ash solution provided that it is done so within a few hours of preparing this ground. Just add one teaspoon of soda ash powder to 1 litre of water. If you leave the FUTURE on the surface of the plate longer than a few hours you will need to make up a mild ammonia solution to remove the FUTURE. There are non-ammonia smelling floor strippers that are also available for removing FUTURE. But caution should be exercised with these products.  
 

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