In an article written for the old web version of Photon, it was stated that gold toner gives a delicate blue tone. However, when I went to purchase some (Tetenal), on the bottle it states that it gives an orange-red tone. Other info I have read also indicates that it give an orange/red tone. Is there some trick to getting a delicate blue from gold toner, or was the origional article wrong?

-- Mike Rott (mike.rott@tuebingen.mpg.de), January 04, 1998

Answers

The article wasn't wrong. You can get a delicate blue tone from gold toner + any WARMTONE PAPER !

-- Roam P. (roam@mailexcite.com), January 09, 1998.

Warm tone prints give a bluish tone in gold, lith prints - which are ultra warm - give wonderful bright azure blues and prints that have been thiocarbamide/sepia toned give you your reds. It follows that split toned sepia on warm toned papers can give a mix of blues and pinks Tim Rudman

-- Tim Rudman (tim.rudman@virgin.net), August 24, 1998.

Nelson Gold Toner produces warm tones on cold tone papers. It will split tone Ilford IV MC fiber: gold in the highlights, olive in the shadows. The effects it produces on warm tone papers varies: Ilford MC turns orange, Agfa MC goes brownish and split tones somewhat. Fassbender Gold, on the other hand, produces bluish tones on cold toned papers. The formula can be varied to produce soft blue or deep blue. I've never tried it on warm tone papers. You can also gold tone on top of sepia, for a real red-orange. These toners are available from Photographer's Formulary. Be prepared to experiment.

-- Peter Hughes (leonine@redshift.com), September 20, 1998.

Peter Hughes is correct. You will get warmer tones with Nelson Gold Toner, and any thiocyanate-based (either ammonium or potassium) gold toner will give you blue tones.

-- Ed Buffaloe (edbuffaloe@earthlink.net), January 20, 1999.