From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 01/24/02-11:03:41 PM Z
> >
> > [clip] ... Vandykes may also be toned using
> > selenium (e.g. from Kodak) 1:100. This is much cheaper but somewhat
> > difficult to control -- and most people (including myself) like the
> > tonal range of gold toning better.
>
> My understanding is that an attempt to tone with selenium will merely bleach
> the print. Can you describe your results?
Kodak rapid selenium has fixer in it, but might be OK used AFTER fixing a
VDB. But if you make your own selenium toner it doesn't have fixer &
shouldn't bleach.
First you grow a selenium, then you add sodium sulfide and ammonium
chloride and boil (this from memory, there are a couple of versions). As I
recall it's T55? A dandy toner, lovely colors, hard to grow the selenium
though.
J.
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