How does fixing solution affect the developer?

How does fixing solution affect the developer?

• A. It neutralises the developer
• B. It halts development by fixing the image
• C. It reduces the image contrast
• D. It has no effect on the developer

Answer: (A)

Fixing solution’s job is to lock the image in place by removing unexposed silver halide from the emulsion, after development is complete. This makes the photograph permanently light-insensitive and stabilizes the image so it won’t continue to change when exposed to light. It doesn’t neutralise the developer—that function belongs to the stop bath, which comes earlier in the process to halt development. Once fixing is underway, the remaining image can no longer be altered by the developer, because unexposed grains have been dissolved away.

Fixing solution’s job is to lock the image in place by removing unexposed silver halide from the emulsion, after development is complete. This makes the photograph permanently light-insensitive and stabilizes the image so it won’t continue to change when exposed to light. It doesn’t neutralise the developer—that function belongs to the stop bath, which comes earlier in the process to halt development. Once fixing is underway, the remaining image can no longer be altered by the developer, because unexposed grains have been dissolved away.