Re: Rockland Halo Chrome

Thanks for posting this! I have a bottle of Halo Chrome that I was planning
on working with soon and now I know that I should probably avoid rapid
fixer.

Please post your results with the glossy RC paper and any tips you come
across for us!

-Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenn Procacci" <procacci@temple.edu>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:10 PM
Subject: Rockland Halo Chrome

> Has anyone ever used Rockland Halo Chrome? It's a kind of
> toner that is supposed to "fuse the silver crystals together
> to create a metallic appearence for B/W prints". The process
> is essentially : bleach the image until just a yellow ghost
> image remains, wash it for a minute, then immerse in
> the "silvering solution" until the "silvering process" is
> complete (no time is given for this, the directions are real
> sketchy) then fix. Everything went alright until the
> fixing...then I would loss all the detail in my image. I
> think this may be due to the fact that I was using rapid
> fix. Also, the images that it did turn metallic (it seemed
> to exhaust extremely quickly) went gold, not silver.
>
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks, Jenn
Received on Tue Feb 17 20:56:53 2004