A list of

photographic processing Photographic processing or photographic development is the chemical means by which photographic film or paper is treated after photographic exposure to produce a negative or positive image. Photographic processing transforms the latent image in ...

techniques.

Color

Agfacolor An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from café in Oslo, Norway. An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from Paris, France. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Hungary. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Zakopane in Poland. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 fr ...

** Ap-41 process (pre-1978 Agfa color slides; 1978-1983 was a transition period when Agfa slowly changed their color slide films from AP-41 to E6) *

Anthotype An anthotype is an image created using photosensitive material from plants. This process was originally invented by Mary Somerville who presented her research to Sir John Herschel (who is often misquoted as the inventor) in 1842. An emulsion is ...

Autochrome Lumière The Autochrome Lumière was an early color photography process patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907. Autochrome was an additive color "mosaic screen plate" process. It was the principal color photogr ...

, 1903 * Carbon print, 1862 *

Chromogenic In chemistry, the term chromogen refers to a colourless (or faintly coloured) chemical compound that can be converted by chemical reaction into a compound which can be described as "coloured". There is no universally agreed definition of the term. ...

positive (

Ektachrome Ektachrome is a brand name owned by Kodak for a range of transparency, still, and motion picture films previously available in many formats, including 35 mm and sheet sizes to 11 × 14 inch size. Ektachrome has a distinctive look that ...

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E-3 process :''See also Ektachrome for full details of Kodak E-series processes.'' The E-2 process and E-3 process are outdated processes for developing Ektachrome reversal photographic film. The two processes are very similar, and differ depending on the ...

E-4 process :''See also Ektachrome for full details of Kodak E-series processes.'' The E-4 process is a now outdated process for developing color reversal (transparency) photographic film, that was introduced in 1966. The process is infamous for two reason ...

E-6 process The E-6 process (often abbreviated to E-6) is a chromogenic photographic process for developing Ektachrome, Fujichrome and other color reversal (also called slide or transparency) photographic film. Unlike some color reversal processes (such ...

negative ** C-41 process **

RA-4 process RA-4 is Kodak's proprietary name for the chemical process most commonly used to make color photographic prints. It is used for both minilab wet silver halide digital printers of the types most common today in photo labs and drug stores, and for pr ...

Dufaycolor Dufaycolor is an early British additive colour photographic film process, introduced for motion picture use in 1932 and for still photography in 1935. It was derived from Louis Dufay's Dioptichrome plates, a glass-based product for colour sti ...

Dye destruction Dye destruction or dye bleach is a photographic printing process, in which dyes embedded in the paper are bleached (destroyed) in processing. Because the dyes are fully formed in the paper prior to processing, they may be formulated with few constra ...

** Cibachrome **

Ilfochrome Ilfochrome (also commonly known as Cibachrome) is a dye destruction positive-to-positive photographic process used for the reproduction of film transparencies on photographic paper. The prints are made on a dimensionally stable polyester base as o ...

Dye-transfer process Dye transfer is a continuous-tone color photographic printing process. It was used to print Technicolor films, as well as to produce paper colour prints used in advertising, or large transparencies for display. History The use of dye imbibition ...

Finlaycolor Finlaycolor was an early color photography process. In '' Uncle Tungsten,'' Oliver Sacks reminisces: See also * Finlay colour process *History of photography *List of photographic processes A list of photographic processing techniques. Color *A ...

Heliochrome A heliochrome is a color photograph, particularly one made by the early experimental processes of the middle 19th to early 20th centuries. The word was coined from the Greek roots "helios", the sun, and "chroma", color, to mean "colored by the su ...

Kinemacolor Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith in 1906. He was influenced by the work of William Norman Lascelles Davidson and, more directly, E ...

Kodachrome Kodachrome is the brand name for a color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. It was one of the first successful color materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography. For many years Kodachrome was widely used ...

K-12 process K-1 is a professional kickboxing promotion established in 1993, well known worldwide mainly for its heavyweight division fights and Grand Prix tournaments. In January 2012, K-1 Global Holdings Limited, a company registered in Hong Kong, acquired ...

K-14 process K-14 was the most recent version of the developing process for Kodak's Kodachrome transparency film before its discontinuation (the last revision having been designated Process K-14M). It superseded previous versions of the Kodachrome process used ...

* Lippmann plate, 1891 * One-light

Black and white (monochrome)

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* Abration tone *

Acetate film Cellulose acetate film, or safety film, is used in photography as a base material for photographic emulsions. It was introduced in the early 20th century by film manufacturers and intended as a safe film base replacement for unstable and highly ...

Albertype An Albertype is a picture printed from a type of gelatine-coated plate produced by means of a photographic negative. The process was invented by Josef Albert, a German photographer who owned and directed a studio and photo lab in Augsburg, Germa ...

* Albumen print, 1850 * Algraphy * Ambrotype * Amphitype * Amylotype * Anaglyph *

* Anthrakotype * Archertype * Argentotype *

Argyrotype Argyrotype is an iron-based silver printing process that produces brown images on plain paper. It is an alternative process derived from the argentotype, kallitype, and Van Dyke processes of the 19th century, but has greater simplicity, improved ...

Aristo paper Aristo (from el, ) may refer to: People Given name * Aristo of Ceos (3rd century BC), Peripatetic philosopher * Aristo of Chios (3rd century BC), Stoic philosopher and colleague of Zeno of Citium * Aristo of Alexandria (1st century BC), Peripa ...

* Aristotype *Aristo * Artotype * Atrephograph * Atrograph *

Aurotype Aurotype is a Monochrome printmaking, monochrome photographic printing process that uses Gold chloride, potassium ferricyanide and potassium ferrocyanide, ferrocyanide. It was described in 1844 by Robert Hunt (scientist), Robert Hunt. It is a membe ...

Autotype (photographic process) Autotype is a function in some computer applications or Computer program, programs, typically those containing form (web), forms, which fills in a field once you have typed in the first few letters. Most of the time, such as in a web browser, the ...

B

* Barrieotype *

Baryta coated paper Barium sulfate (or sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula Barium, BaSulfate, SO4. It is a white crystalline solid that is odorless and Solubility, insoluble in water. It occurs as the mineral barite, which is the main comme ...

Bayard process Bayard may refer to: People *Bayard (given name) * Bayard (surname) *Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1473–1524) French knight Places * Bayard, Delaware, an unincorporated community *Bayard (Jacksonville), Florida, a neighborhood *Bayard, ...

* Bichromate process * Bichromated gelatin * Bichromated gum arabic * Bichromatic albumen *

Bitumen of Judea Bitumen of Judea, or Syrian asphalt, is a naturally occurring asphalt that has been put to many uses since ancient times. Wood coloration usage Bitumen of Judea may be used as a colorant for wood for an aged, natural and rustic appearance. It ...

, 1826 * Breyertype *

Bromide paper Photographic paper is a coated paper, paper coated with a light-sensitive chemical formula, like photographic film, used for making photographic prints. When photographic paper is exposed to light, it captures a latent image that is then Film deve ...

* bromoil process, 1907 * Burneum

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Caffenol Caffenol is a photographic alternative process whereby phenols, sodium carbonate and optionally vitamin C are used in aqueous solution as a film and print photographic developer.

* Calotype, 1841 * Cameo * Carbon print, 1855 * Carbro Print * Carbro * Casein pigment * Catalysotype * Catalisotype * Catatype * Cellulose diacetate negative * Cellulose nitrate negative * Cellulose triacetate negative * Ceroleine * Chalkotype * Charbon Velour * Chlorobromide paper * Chromatype * Chripotype * Chrysotype, 1842 * Chrystollotype *

Cliché verre Cliché verre, also known as the glass print technique, is a type of "semiphotographic" printmaking. An image is created by various means on a transparent surface, such as glass, thin paper or film, and then placed on light sensitive paper in a ...

* Collodion paper * Collodion process, 1851 *

Collotype Collotype is a gelatin-based photographic printing process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 to print images in a wide variety of tones without the need for halftone screens. The majority of collotypes were produced between the 1870s and 1 ...

, 1855 *

Contact print A contact print is a photographic image produced from film; sometimes from a film negative, and sometimes from a film positive or paper negative. In a darkroom an exposed and developed piece of film or photographic paper is placed emulsion ...

* Contact sheet * Contretype * Copper Photogravure * Crystoleum * Crystal photo 1850 *

Cyanotype The cyanotype (from Ancient Greek κυάνεος - ''kuáneos'', “dark blue” + τύπος - ''túpos'', “mark, impression, type”) is a slow-reacting, economical photographic printing formulation sensitive to a limited near ultraviolet ...

, 1842

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* Daguerreotype, 1839 * Dallastype * Diaphanotype *

Diazotype Whiteprint describes a document reproduction produced by using the diazo chemical process. It is also known as the blue-line process since the result is blue lines on a white background. It is a contact printing process which accurately reproduc ...

* dr5 chrome B&W positive process *

Dry collodion negative Dry or dryness most often refers to: * Lack of rainfall, which may refer to **Arid regions **Drought * Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of selling, serving, or imbibing alcoholic beverages * Dry humor, deadpan * Dryness (medical) * ...

* Dry collodion process *

Dry plate Dry plate, also known as gelatin process, is an improved type of photographic plate. It was invented by Dr. Richard L. Maddox in 1871 and had become so widely adopted by 1879 that the first dry plate factory had been established. With much of ...

* Dye coupler process * Dye destruction process * Dye diffusion transfer process * Dye transfer print

E

* Eburneum * Ectograph * Ectographe *

Electrotype Electrotyping (also galvanoplasty) is a chemical method for forming metal parts that exactly reproduce a model. The method was invented by Moritz von Jacobi in Russia in 1838, and was immediately adopted for applications in printing and several o ...

* Energiatype * Enamaline * Enamel photograph

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* Feertype * Ferroprussiate paper * Ferrotype * Fluorotype

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* Gaslight paper * Gaudinotype * Gelatino-Bromide emulsions, 1875 * Gelatin-silver process * Gem tintype *

Gum bichromate Gum bichromate is a 19th-century photographic printing process based on the light sensitivity of dichromates. It is capable of rendering painterly images from photographic negatives. Gum printing is traditionally a multi-layered printing process, ...

* Gum Bichromate Print * Gum Dichromate * Gum over platinum *

Gum printing Gum printing is a way of making photographic reproductions without the use of silver halides. The process uses salts of dichromate in common with a number of other related processes such as sun printing. When mixtures of mucilaginous, protein-cont ...

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Photogravure Photogravure (in French ''héliogravure'') is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and ...

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* Hallotype *

Heliography Heliography (in French, ''héliographie)'' from ''helios'' (Greek: ''ἥλιος'')'','' meaning "sun"'','' and ''graphein (γράφειν),'' "writing") is the photographic process invented, and named thus, by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around ...

* Heliotype * Hellenotype * Hillotype * Hyalotype -1850 * Hydrotype * Hypersensitization * Highgrid 2014

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* Inkodye * Intermediate negative *

Internegative An internegative is a motion picture film duplicate. It is the color counterpart to an interpositive, in which a low-contrast color image is used as the positive between an original camera negative and a duplicate negative. After a film is shot ...

Iron salt process Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from la, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, right in front ...

* Ivorytype -1855

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K

Kallitype Kallitype is a process for making photographic prints. Patented in 1889 by W. W. J. Nicol (1855-1929), the Kallitype print is an iron-silver process. A chemical process similar to the Van Dyke brown based on the use of a combination of ferric and ...

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* Lambertype * Leggotype * LeGray * Levytype * Linograph * Linotype

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* Mariotype * Meisenbach process * Melainotype * Melanograph * Metotype *

Mordançage Mordançage is an alternative photographic process that alters silver gelatin prints to give them a degraded effect. The mordançage solution works in two ways: it chemically bleaches the print so that it can be redeveloped, and it lifts the black ...

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O

* Oil Print Process * Opalotype * Ozobrom process * Ozobrome * Ozotype * Ozotype process

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* Palladiotype, 1914 * Palladium processing * Pannotype *

Paper negative The paper negative process consists of using a negative printed on paper (either photographically or digitally) to create the final print of a photograph, as opposed to using a modern negative on a film base A film base is a transparent substrat ...

* Paynetype * Photocollography *

Photogram A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image th ...

* Photolithography * Photosculpture * Phototype *

Physautotype The physautotype (from French, ''physautotype'') was a photographic process, invented in the course of his investigation of heliography, by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in 1832, in which images were produced by the u ...

* Pinatype process *

Platinotype Platinum prints, also called ''platinotypes'', are photographic prints made by a monochrome printing process involving platinum. Platinum tones range from warm black, to reddish brown, to expanded mid-tone grays that are unobtainable in silver ...

, 1873 * Playertype * Plumbeotype, developed by

John Plumbe John Plumbe Jr. (occasionally Plumb; July 13, 1809 – May 29, 1857) was a Welsh-born American entrepreneurial photographer, gallerist, publisher, and an early advocate of an American transcontinental railroad in the mid-19th century. He establish ...

* Photo-crayotype

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* Rayograph

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Salt print The salt print was the dominant paper-based photographic process for producing positive prints (from negatives) from 1839 until approximately 1860. The salted paper technique was created in the mid-1830s by English scientist and inventor Henry ...

* Self-toning paper *

Siderotype Siderotype is an iron-based photographic print. The term was coined by Sir John Frederick William Herschel. A short list of processes defined as siderotypes is as follows: amphitype, argentotype, argyrotype, aurotype, breath print, Brown Line, ...

Silver bromide Silver bromide (AgBr) is a soft, pale-yellow, water-insoluble salt well known (along with other silver halides) for its unusual sensitivity to light. This property has allowed silver halides to become the basis of modern photographic materials. A ...

* Silver chloride collodion * Simpsontype * Sphereotype *

Stand development Stand development is a photographic development process where Photographic film, film is left in a very dilute Photographic developer, developing solution for an extended period of time, with little or no agitation. The technique dates back to at ...

*Stanhope * Stannotype * Sun printing

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* Talbotype *

Tintype A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. Tintypes enjoyed their ...

or Ferrotype * Tithnotype * Transferotype

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* Uranium print

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Van Dyke Van Dyke, VanDyke or Vandyke is an Americanized or anglicized form of the Dutch language, Dutch-language toponymic surname ''Van Dijk'', ''Van Dijke'', ''Van Dijck'', or ''Van Dyck (surname), Van Dyck''. Meaning living near the dike. Van Dyke, Van ...

* Vesicular film

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* Wash-off Relief * Wet collodion plate * Wet collodion process * Wet plate process *

Woodburytype A Woodburytype is both a printing process and the print that it produces. In technical terms, the process is a ''photomechanical'' rather than a ''photographic'' one, because sensitivity to light plays no role in the actual printing. The process ...

* Wothlytype

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* Ziatype

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