Ah, so it does. The fixer stabilises the image, removing the unexposed silver halide remaining on the photographic film or photographic paper, leaving behind t

Ah, so it does. The fixer stabilises the image, removing the unexposed silver halide remaining on the photographic film or photographic paper, leaving behind the reduced metallic silver that forms the image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_fixer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_fixer