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So the final chemical that you're going to use in this process is a photo-flow, very
easy to forget. But what this does is it's sort of like a finishing agent, and it makes
your film a little less brittle, and also less...it won't attract as much static or
hair, or things that you don't want on your film as it's drying. And basically, I make
it a cap full to a quart of water. Very easy to make too strong. If you make it too strong,
it almost looks like too many suds, it's too soapy, so you really want to make this one
right. Once I put it in the photo-flow, I take my film off the reel, and that's good.
When you can see images on your film, that's good. You don't want to see right through
your film or you don't want not be able to see anything. So I can see that my film came
out, and to me this is really one of the most exciting parts about it, is that, "Okay, I
finally got this." What I do is I squeegee it. They make a little tool for this, but
I like my fingers, and I just squeegee the excess water off the film and I'm ready to
dry.