Ilford FB Warm Tone - Suggest a Good Selenium Dilution Please.

Hi Everyone,

I picked up a box of 10 16x20 Ilford Warm Tone fiber paper recently. I've never used warm tone paper before. I have a couple of important prints that I would like to selenium tone. I've heard that warm tone papers as a general rule show a more pronounced tonal change with selenium. I don't tone to many prints but when I do, I try to keep things a bit where they are. I don't care for the dark tones to go to purple or red in tone. A little bit of a change is fine but not too much. Since most of my 10 sheets are gone, I kind of need to nail it on my first try. Any suggestion? Thanks.
Regards,
Marc

PS - I seem to have forgotten a step. After toning, do I have to put the prints through another hypo clearing bath before the final wash?

If it's KRST then 1+9 is fine with Warmtone papers, the trick is to do the toning in a well lit area, and keep an eye on how it's toning. I tend to keep a test strip or another untoned wet print as a reference.

There's no need for an HCA step before toning, but use one after if you want to shorten wash times.

Ian

If you are looking for a more subtle change, I'd start at 1:25 or higher. If it goes too far, there is no saving it. If it isn't as far as you'd like it, you can always tone further. With high dilutions, I find that having an untoned print in tray filled with water next to the toning tray helps to monitor the tonal change. If toning takes, say, five minutes, it is hard to really see the changes without a reference print next to it. And, yes, HCA is a good idea after selenium (at least according to Kodak) to reduce wash times, but not necessary if you are doing an extended wash anyway

Marc, I would recommend using KRST 1:19 for 1 to 2 minutes if you're not looking for much of a color shift. Yes you need to use a hypo clearing agent for 5 minutes after toning, then final wash. Good luck!

Brian

Ian Grant said:

If it's KRST then 1+9 is fine with Warmtone papers, the trick is to do the toning in a well lit area, and keep an eye on how it's toning. I tend to keep a test strip or another untoned wet print as a reference.

There's no need for an HCA step before toning, but use one after if you want to shorten wash times.

Ian

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Ditto on this, I use my KRST mixed in wash aid, a trick taught by Howard Bond, and it works wonderfully..EC

I've been using KRST with IMGWT at 1:50 for 2 minutes. Here are two examples. (there was a url link here which no longer exists) & (there was a url link here which no longer exists). Developer was PF130 at 1:1.