The bleach bypass, or "bleach skip" technique involves the partial or complete skipping of the bleaching stage during the processing of a colour film. This prevents the silver from being removed from the negative, and the result is a contrasty image with muted colours. The technique is often used extensively in motion pictures, such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Three Kings".

It also gives a very pleasing, "film-like" quality to images, much like older, fast print film was used.

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