Sepia & other Toners                                                 Back

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You don't need a fancy darkroom or even any darkroom to sepia tone your black & white

photographs. All you need is two pans where the prints can lay flat in the chemicals & a

third pan or sink where they can be washed. plus a place where they can be dried, I hang

mine. I used to have a rotary dryer but I'm not in the business any more & hanging is fine.

You can get the chemicals at any photo store. They come in a pack. the two chemicals are

a bleach (Removes the silver image & the dye/stain) first soak the print in the bleach till

the image fades to nothing, rinse the print for 20 or so seconds, soak print in second bath

till image reappears and gets good & dark, rinse for a couple of minutes, Dry. Your done.

Silver changes with time, so the sepia toned prints are more archival. another plus