Meanings
- artsA film laboratory technique where the bleach stage during the development of a color film is skipped, resulting in images with increased contrast and graininess.
The bleach-bypass really captured the light of Mexico City, especially given that we shot the commercial on a very grey and overcast day. […] The bleach-bypass process I find has a spiritual quality that I relate to and really love.
2021, Jason Wood, quoting Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema, Faber & Faber, →ISBNSynonyms: skip bleach, silver retention
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA film laboratory technique where the bleach stage during the development of a color film is skipped, resulting in images with increased contrast and graininess.
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bleach bypass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bleach%20bypass
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