There a couple of books that might help you: "Professional Photoshop" by Margulis, and "Photoshop Color Correction" by Kieran. They include useful & straightforward methods for getting the colours and exposure right, including rescuing damaged photos.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Cory Papenfuss > Sent: 26 August 2006 13:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Digitally restoring badly-processed slides? > > Hey all... got a film-related question here. I was > going to scan > in a bunch of 35mm color slides from a family trip 20 years > ago. Some of > them were accidentally cross-processed by the lab... I think as color > negative film (very dark?). Maybe they were just > underdeveloped. I don't > know. > > I was going to scan in all the non-broken ones and archive them > digitally. Is there any way to at least partially save the > dark ones? I > haven't scanned any in yet to see if the colors are wonky, or > they're just > dark. > > Any ideas? I'm not looking to restore them perfectly... just > extract a decent rendition of slides that the family has never really > "seen." > > -Cory -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
