Abstract: A method of making a photographic print having improved sharpness, clarity, texture and highlight definition, suitable for use in dye-transfer printing, engraving, lithography, offset, and the like, involves the production of a primary color separated negative of the image to be printed on a panchromatic film, producing a separated color positive from the separated color negative, producing a reversal positive from the separated color positive on direct reversal film so as to produce a panchromatic primary color separated reversal positive, producing a composite separation negative from the separated color positive and the reversal positive, and producing the desired photographic positive from the composite negative.