Hey guys,

I’ve got a negative I shot recently that I’d really like to make some prints of. However, it got a single scratch on it while I was tray processing. When I made a contact print, the scratch is very noticeable. In thinking about how I might fix this, I recalled an old video I saw of Ansel Adams Printing in his darkroom, where I think he used an x-acto knife to scratch at the emulsion to make the area lighter. I tried that, but it just scratched off the complete emulsion and made it pure wight. (I might be completely mis remembering the video). How do you guys deal with scratched negatives? Is there anything like white out that is archival and comes in various grays?

Thanks,
Ethan