Printing Post

1. Since my negatives had a few water spots on them I used the Photo Flo to wipe them off: you dip it in the Photo Flo then wipe it of using the special photo wipes by pulling the edge.
2. When I loaded the negative into the enlarger I picked my one negative, opened the flap of the black metal holder and put the edges under the four silver circles so that it would stay and lowered the flap. Then I slid it into the enlarger and lowered the lever.
3. I focused the image by using the "crystal mirror". I placed that on top of the picture and slightly turned the knob to focus the image so that the crystals would become clear and defined.
4. I set the aperture by using the timer. The longer you had the timer on the more your image would develop on the paper and vice versa.
   
5. For the test strip, I tore off a slice of the paper and for each quarter section of it I used a higher aperture when I moved the blocked part over. Then I developed it through the developer, stop bath, and fixer.
6. When making the final print I used a whole sheet of paper and placed it under the lighted image and centered it with the image so that some of the image would not be cut off, then set the correct aperture on the timer and hit start. Then it went through the developer, stop bath, and fixer.