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Old 11th January 2021, 02:14 PM
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Good afternoon Mike.
Selenium is not the best way to go to get consistent and pleasing brown tones with Ilford papers.

With Ilford Multigrade classic selenium delivers a warm purple tone.
http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...php?photo=2417

On Ilford warmtone GLOSS paper it takes out the slightly green cast the paper sometimes shows and gives a muted brown tone:
http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...php?photo=1917

However, MATTE warmtone FB tone horribly in selenium. Shadows tone to a peachy-orange while midtones and highlights remain almost unaffected. I have no examples to show as they all went in the bin.

I dabbled with Slavich paper, which toned just beautifully in Selenium:
http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...php?photo=2478

Adox MCC fibre didn't change much at all.

If I really want a brown tone on Ilford I use Fotospeed sepia
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