Lith Printing
A darkroom process that deliberately overexposes a print and develops it in highly diluted lith developer. The result is warm, grainy, high-contrast imagery with unpredictable color, prized by fine-art darkroom printers.
Spot it
- 01Warm peach-brown highlights
- 02Crushed, inky blacks
- 03Coarse, mottled grain
Why it happens
Dilute lith developer works by infectious development, where developing areas accelerate each other and silver grows in clumps, giving sudden contrast, coarse grain and color shifts.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Reprint this image as a lith print on warm-tone paper: a heavily overexposed, slow-developed look with creamy peach-and-sepia highlights, deep inky shadows with cool blue-black patches, strong contrast, coarse mottled grain, uneven edges and a slightly blocked-up tonal range. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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