Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Adjusting RGB Levels on scanned negative film

 


I made blogpost about this back in 2013 and this is still my workflow when I'm shooting analog. This can be done with nearly all scanner soft wears that allow you to turn auto adjustments off. 

In a nutshell: While scanning negatives, the scanner software usually performs or attempts to perform this step for you. However, the software interprets the image in 1s and 0s, so the black or white out-of-frame areas can confuse the scanner software and result in inconsistent colours. This method simply adjusts the RGB levels on the histogram to the correct positions, removing software error from the equation.


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