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BLACK-AND-WHITE PAPER DEVELOPERS

PAPER DEVELOPER AND DEVELOPING-OUT PAPER

Learning to become 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 how the final image will appear. As your knowledge and competence increase, so do the visual possibilities.

All silver-based developers, whether they are for paper or film, are quite similar in their chemical composition (see Chapter 5). The major difference between paper and film developers is that paper developers are generally more alkaline, which makes them more energetic ...

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