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 i ...

techniques.

Color

* Agfacolor ** 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 * Autochrome Lumière, 1903 *

Carbon print A carbon print is a photographic print with an image consisting of pigmented gelatin, rather than of silver or other metallic particles suspended in a uniform layer of gelatin, as in typical black-and-white prints, or of chromogenic dyes, as in t ...

, 1862 * Chromogenic positive ( Ektachrome) ** E-3 process ** E-4 process **

E-6 process The E-6 process is a chromogenic Photographic processing, photographic process for developing Ektachrome, Fujichrome and other Reversal film, color reversal (also called slide or transparency) photographic film. Unlike some color reversal process ...

* Chromogenic negative ** C-41 process ** RA-4 process * Dufaycolor * Dye destruction ** Cibachrome ** Ilfochrome *

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 f ...

* Finlaycolor *

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 *

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-14 process * Lippmann plate, 1891 * One-light

Black and white (monochrome)

A

* Abration tone * Acetate film * Albertype *

Albumen print Egg white is the clear liquid (also called the albumen or the glair/glaire) contained within an egg. In chickens, it is formed from the layers of secretions of the anterior section of the hen's oviduct during the passage of the egg. It forms aro ...

, 1850 * Algraphy *

Ambrotype The ambrotype, also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. As a cheaper alternative to the French daguerreotype, ambrotypes came to replace them. Like a ...

* Amphitype * Amylotype * Anaglyph * Anthotype * Anthrakotype * Archertype * Argentotype * Argyrotype * Aristo paper * Aristotype * Aristo * Artotype * Atrephograph * Atrograph * Aurotype * Autotype (photographic process)

B

* Barrieotype * Baryta coated paper * Bayard process * Bichromate process * Bichromated gelatin * Bichromated gum arabic * Bichromatic albumen *

Bitumen of Judea Bitumen of Judea is a naturally occurring asphalt used since antiquity as a wood colorant, and in early photography as a light-sensitive coating. Wood coloration usage Bitumen of Judea may be used as a colorant for wood for an aged, natural ...

, 1826 * Breyertype * Bromide paper * Bromoil process, 1907

C

* Caffenol *

Calotype Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. Paper texture effects in calotype photography limit the ability of this early process to record low ...

, 1841 * Cameo *

, 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 * Collodion paper *

Collodion process The collodion process is an early photography, photographic process for the production of grayscale images. The collodion process – mostly synonymized with the term "''wet-plate process''", requires the photographic material to be coated, sensi ...

, 1851 *

Collotype Collotype is a gelatin-based photographic process, photographic printing process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 to print images in a wide variety of Tone (color), tones without the need for Halftone, halftone screens. The majority of coll ...

, 1855 *

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

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

Cyanotype The cyanotype (from , and , ) is a slow-reacting, photographic printing formulation sensitive to a limited near-ultraviolet and blue light spectrum, the range 300 nm to 400 nm known as UVA radiation. It produces a monochrome, blu ...

, 1842

D

Daguerreotype Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photography, photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwid ...

, 1839 * Dallastype * Diaphanotype * Diazotype *

dr5 chrome dr5, or dr5 Chrome, is a reversal black and white process, through which most kinds of black-and-white negative films produce transparencies, including Scala and Foma-r films (slides). The dr5 process is a chemical reversal process, rather than ...

B&W positive process * Dry collodion negative * Dry collodion process * Dry plate * Dye coupler process * Dye destruction process * Dye diffusion transfer process * Dye transfer print

E

* Ectograph * Ectographe * Electrotype * Energiatype * Enamaline * Enamel photograph

F

* Feertype * Ferroprussiate paper * Ferrotype * Fluorotype

G

* Gaslight paper * Gaudinotype * Gelatino-Bromide emulsions, 1875 * Gelatin-silver process * Gem tintype * Gum bichromate * Gum Bichromate Print * Gum Dichromate * Gum over platinum * Gum printing = *

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 ...

H

* Hallotype *

Heliography Heliography is an early photographic process, based on the hardening of bitumen in sunlight. It was invented by Nicéphore Niépce around 1822. Niépce used the process to make the earliest known surviving photograph from nature, '' View from ...

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

I

* Inkodye * Intermediate negative * Internegative * Iron salt process * Ivorytype, 1855

K

* Kallitype

L

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

M

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

N

O

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

P

* Palladiotype, 1914 * Palladium processing * Pannotype * Paper negative * Paynetype * Photocollography *

Photogram A photogram is a Photography, 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 im ...

Photolithography Photolithography (also known as optical lithography) is a process used in the manufacturing of integrated circuits. It involves using light to transfer a pattern onto a substrate, typically a silicon wafer. The process begins with a photosensiti ...

* Photosculpture * Phototype * Physautotype * Pinatype process *

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

, 1873 * Playertype * Plumbeotype, developed by John Plumbe * Photo-crayotype

R

* Rayograph

S

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 He ...

* Self-toning paper * Siderotype *

Silver bromide Silver bromide (AgBr), 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. AgB ...

* Silver chloride collodion * Simpsontype * Sphereotype * Stand development *Stanhope * Stannotype * Sun printing

T

* Talbotype *

Tintype A tintype, also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called 'tin' (though not actually tinplate, tin-coated), coated with a dark lacquer or Enamel paint, ...

or Ferrotype * Tithnotype * Transferotype

U

* Uranium print

V

* Van Dyke * Vesicular film

W

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

Z

* Ziatype

References

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