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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Need help with C22 degs
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Mon Nov 27 20:36:38 2006
References: <F5C130D3-FAFC-4E0A-97DB-C13202A4F1CB@comcast.net> <9b678e0611272023w43babc40w7bafc7e084056a7c@mail.gmail.com>

Don, Thanks a lot. Don't know how good my photo is. It's been worked  
on to death. I should have the original scan someplace. I'll give it  
a try and when I'm happy I'll re-post.

Len


On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Don Dory wrote:

> Len,
> You shouldn't panic, this is a relatively easy correction.  If  
> using PS then
> open an adjustment layer:levels.  Use the white point eye dropper on
> something that should be white in the image; you can use the  
> pointer to find
> something near 255,255,255.  Then find something that should be  
> black and do
> the same with the black point eyedropper.  Most of the time the  
> color gets
> really close at this point.
>
> This is your original:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/ 
> OrchidIsland_1.jpg.html
>
> and this is what happens after I did the above:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/ 
> OrchidIsland_1copy.jpg.html
>
> Possibly a little bit blue but pretty close to reality as seen by  
> thirty
> year old print film.  In actuality I would add another adjustment  
> layer for
> color and tweak in a little bit of yellow back.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 11/27/06, Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have a large number of C22 color negatives from the 70's I'm trying
>> to scan. I find it impossible to get the color right. I have spent
>> hours with the following two images and they still aren't right. Does
>> anybody know of a profile for Nikon scanners what will handle C22
>> processed negatives?
>>
>> Nearly all my old negatives were taken in the Far East in Taiwan,
>> Hong Kong, and off shore Islands. About two years worth.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/Orchid+Island/
>> OrchidIsland_1.jpg.html
>>
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/Orchid+Island/
>> OrchidIsland_2.jpg.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Len
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] IMG: Need help with C22 degs)
Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] IMG: Need help with C22 degs)