Here a set of pictures is given, which demonstrate, what can be done with the vanadium toner, as described in toner.pdf.

This is the image, used as the basis for all toning experiments. It is printed several times, all parameters for exposure, printing and developing kept the same for each print.

This is the image, toned with the vanadium toner, without any added effects. Just plain toning and fixing without any frills. This is not such an interesting image, but this color can be combined with many other colors and that makes the toner interesting. The actual picture is better, than what is shown here. The details in the highlights are not lost in reality. My cheap scanner unfortunately is not capable of reproducing these details in this bright image.

This is the yellow color, combined with iron toning. A nice bright green is obtained. The left picture had just a small amount of iron mixed in, the right picture had a lot of iron mixed in. The right picture suffers from some staining, due to the very low pH, used in the vanadium toner. Low pH causes strong staining of iron toner.

When the toned image is not fixed after toning, then the image at first is light yellow, as the image, shown above, but the image gradually darkens in the course of a day. After two or three days, the color of the image stabilizes and does not change anymore, not even, when kept in sunlight. This image was obtained by using the vanadium toner only, without the use of any iron toning. The irregular color in the scanned image, halfway the image (above the shoulders on the wall) is due to curling of the dried paper.

When the toner is used, together with an iron toner, but the image is not fixed, then a dark olive-green color is obtained, which for some images can really be beautiful. Immediately after toning, this image is bright green, somewhere in between of the two green images, shown above. In two or three days, the color stabilizes to what is shown below.

Finally, the effect of combining the vanadium toner with sepia/sulfide toning is shown below. For this image, the print first was toned in the vanadium toner. The image was rinsed, but not fixed. The toned image, then was immersed in a lightly acidic sulfide bath.

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