Chapter 8Black-and-White Paper Developers
Paper Developer And Developing-Out Paper
Becoming a good printer requires inquisitiveness about all aspects of making an expressive print. The more experience you have with a range of developers, the more command you can exercise over the “look” of the final image. As your knowledge and competence increase, so do your visual possibilities.
All silver-based developers, whether they are for paper or film, are quite similar in their chemical composition (see Chapter 6). The major difference between paper and film developers is that paper developers are generally more alkaline, which makes them more energetic and fast acting. If a film developer is used to process a print, the image will appear gray ...
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