Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/2/2002 10:26 pm, Lea Murphy at owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us wrote: > I'm going through some old 35mm color negs trying to locate several to have > reprinted. > > Using a flatbed scanner and Photoshop 5.5 is it possible to scan the negs > and convert them to positives so I can see what I'm looking at? > > I don't need high quality........just the ability to see what I'm looking > at. > > Any help is greatly appreciated... Hi Lea - two issues here. If your flatbed doesn't have a transparency adapter you will have to 'kludge' something. An inverted lightbox on top of the negatives might work. Because you are scanning colour negs manually and do not have the luxury of automatic mask removal and the like you will need to do the following in Photoshop: 1) Sample colour from orange mask area of clear film 2) create adjustment layer, fill with orange colour and invert 3) create another adjustment layer to invert negative 4) create another adjustment layer to deal with levels 5) Flatten image and print It works but it is a long haul! Best of luck David Prakel - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html