>>4420476I do test strips and see what expose is best that way. Its impossible to see if the image is too dark or too bright under the safelight so you do this and view it under regular light later. I have never seen or read others not do this. It has worked well so far but it seems like i have to play around with dev times but on a per paper basis. I didn't read about how to do this stuff on wikihow but they have this nice illustration.