Toned does not apply a film look. It runs the photochemistry: your photo is exposed
onto an emulsion, developed, printed through an enlarger onto photographic paper, and toned.
The negative is a real step, not a figure of speech.
You can look at it, orange mask and all, and export it, before you make a print from it.
Every stage is a stage
Load a film. Every stock has its own characteristic curve, one per dye layer,
which is why the same exposure change does not do the same thing on every stock.
Expose it. In stops, not with a brightness slider.
Develop it. Push and pull move contrast, grain and shadow density the way
development time does, and the app says what it did.
Look at the negative. The orange integral dye mask on the colour stocks,
clear base on the black and white ones.
Print it. Enlarger exposure, paper grade 0 to 5 in half steps, and the
paper's own response curve and maximum black.
Dodge and burn. Light held back or given, in stops, before the paper's curve.
That is why burning a blown sky brings tone back instead of turning white into grey.
Tone the print. Toners work by density, so they reach the shadows or the
midtones first, the way the chemistry does.
Why it looks like this
Halation happens where the emulsion was blown through to the antihalation layer, and it bleeds
into the red-sensitive layer. It lands around a highlight, not on top of it.
Grain lives in the density. It is coarsest through the midtones and thins out in the deep
shadows and the blown highlights, because that is where the crystals are.
The orange mask is not a colour wash. It is base density, and the enlarger's colour head
cancels it at print time.
Paper is not a filter. A glossy fibre base holds a deeper black than a matte, and the matte
has no true black at all.
On the shelf
Thirteen film stocks, nine colour negative and four black and white. Five papers, resin coated and
fibre base, neutral, warmtone and matte. Four toners: selenium, sepia, gold and copper. Split-grade
printing, a soft exposure for the highlights and a hard one for the blacks, timed separately.
Private by design
No account, no server, no analytics, no ads. Toned makes no network calls at all. Your photos stay
on your phone because there is nowhere else for them to go.
Toned edits photos from your library. It is not a camera.