Color

Cross process

Film developed in the wrong chemistry: shadows and highlights drift apart.

Cross process: a color effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Cross process in the studio

Controls

amount
How far the wrong chemistry went. Zero is a properly developed film, one is a full cross-process
shift
Which way the shadows go — negative into blue, and the highlights turn warm in answer. The two halves always part company
punch
How hard the curve is bent: highlights blow out, shadows choke
fog
Lifts the black off the floor. Cross-processed shadows almost never reach zero — the film gives back a haze

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