(4/4) FIXING your color darkroom prints! answers to your problems and troubleshooting tips 

I am so glad I found this series. I always thought colour printing would be incredibly expensive and difficult, but you made it look very approachable and fun to learn and experiment with. Very excited about this new hobby of mine.

I did my first RA4 prints last night! I don't think I'd ever have bothered if I hadn't found this series of videos, so thank you very much! One thing I found, reading around, and seemed to work OK for me. Room temperature is just fine, things just take longer, and I guess the colour correction might vary a bit more. Fixing a temperature makes sense if you really want to be able to accurately reproduce, but, at least for me, if they are one offs then room temperature works (about 24c last night, but 20 is supposed to be fine too).

Great series! It's way easier than I thought!

There’s a couple things that I’ve noticed talk about that aren’t completely true, but for the most part, the thing that I see is that you must not be washing your prints well in between chemicals, for example, your light leak issue you have is actually developer carrying over to the Blix issue using stop bath and rinses in between each chemical will decrease the chances of you getting strange streaks and brown blotches. Plus, giving your paper a final wash for a minimum of 10 minutes will greatly increase the archive ability of your print. You should be able to hang your print without any glass and not get any color fading overtime for at least 45 to 75 years but like I said, it is very essential to wash your print and rinse.

Great video! Very interesting topic. I do a lot of RA-4 printing and find it very easy to use. Almost easier than black and white. The color filtration can usually be fixed when you have got it right for the first image in the roll. I use open trays and it works great!

Very helpful, thank you!

Great video - ive printing ra4 for some years - just now got a print with dull/ desaturated colors for the first time . Until liw i ve got some ok prints with the chemestry ive mixed for thesse two rolls of portra400 ( i mixed just one liter) . Anyway - do you have any idea on this? Kind regards jesper

Thank you so much for this video! I've been trying to figure out why my 4x5 negatives get a yellow or pink stain. I normally scan them and then invert the colors and when I do, it looks just like the one you showed with the inadequate blixing. What do you recommend I do in that case? I've tried this with new blix and I've gotten the same result. Should I leave the negative in the blix longer? Could it be related to the 4x5 holder I'm using in my paterson tank? Again, thanks so much, I've recently picked up darkroom printing (trying to use my computer less and just use the enlarger) and this is extremely helpful!

This is amazing. This is exactly what I needed. I appreciate you so much, is it too much to ask for a b&w tutorial? Unless you had one in the works already

I enjoyed them and I used RA-4 in college so it would be good to get some Tetnal chemicals

Can we use regular Patterson/Jobo tanks to process the film paper?

In my experience ...don't buy expired color paper. It doesn't work and it is not possible to learn color printing with expired paper. Color paper is not like be black and white. I purchased an entire roll of expired paper at a good price. It has been a big mistake.. It was a disaster.

Developing film and printing at home is a dangerous path. There are many toxic chemicals to use. And the ventilation in the rooms at home ist often very bad. That means you breathe in the hole time toxic fumes. My grandfather developed film and printing at home when i was a kid. There are many fotos of me at the age of 0-3. My grandfather died at the age of 49 because of lung cancer after a few years darkroom practice. My grandmother died at age of 96! Conicidence? I don't know? Darkroom work isn't harmless. The chemicals damages our health. For sure. Be careful. My advise. Leave it alone.