There’s a thread from a few weeks ago, round about 18 April, when I asked a similar question because I’ve been doing something similar.
What works quite well was suggested by Godfrey. In Lightroom use the white balance eye-dropper to select the space between the negatives as the reference white to remove the cast, then invert the colours by dragging the ends of the curves to the top and bottom respectively. This gives you quick results like this, which is good enough for my purposes in letting me see what I have so I can either throw it away or keep and scan individual frames. https://adobe.ly/3cOnqTe I’m using an old Leica copy stand at the A4 setting with a 50mm lens. I intend to get something similar which does individual frames. > On 19 May 2020, at 03:18, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ah, but that assumes a film scanner. I’ve been putting slides on a light box > and shooting them with my K-5 (on a tripod) and a macro lens. > > So, I need a software solution that runs on a Mac. Any ideas? > > > >>> On May 18, 2020, at 10:14 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Rick Womer wrote: >>> >>> Ive been going through lots of family photos the last few days for an >>> upcoming event. >>> >>> Most of the shots were slides, but a substantial number were prints. For >>> many of those, the prints are lost but the negatives remain. >>> >>> Is there a way, without huge investment, to turn scanned color negatives >>> into positives? >> >> All film scanners I know of have software that does the necessary >> inversion and color mask removal. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
