Wow wow wow. This was easily, hands down, the best scanned color negative/positive video I've ever watched. so thorough and well explained. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Hi Anthony, Completely late to this party. Trying to avoid expensive scanning costs here in the UK, I have struggled with various plug ins. A mix between your excellent teaching and simple process, this works like a dream. Thanks for sharing.
I just stumbled across this video and now have a workflow I am happy with! I was about to spend the money on Negative Lab Pro, but wasn't feeling good about it. I feel I have so much more control now and am getting results I happy with. Thank you!
Good video Anthony :) This is exactly how I colour correct my film. Here's a few tips to make this even easier. Hold the shift button when you're moving the point in a straight line, so it goes in only one dimension and does not move around, saving you a lot of frustration. To make really tiny corrections on the the curves, you could press the Alt key on a PC or it's counterpart on a mac keyboard to move the point very slowly by a longer range in the movement of the mouse, ie if you move the mouse 5 inches, the point will respond by moving very little as compared to the normal movement, allowing you to make tiny corrections.
So glad I found this video. I had almost given up on converting color negatives to positives properly in Lightroom. Your technique works like a champ!!!
Great video. Solved a problem correcting my images. I discovered that the mid point will alter the cast by removing either red,blue or green by moving downward or to the left. Also you can add either red ,green or blue by moving the mid point in the opposite direction, i.e., by moving to the right or upwards. By doing this you can fine tune or colour match to a original or copy. Thanks for a very educational video.
This is the best processing solution I've seen! This is way better than inverting and then adjusting, I don't understand how its so much better but I'm very glad I found this thank you.
Great job again, but maybe I can add something. At about 2:00 minutes, you explain the difficulty in grabbing the end of the line and going straight up without losing it. If you hold the shift key while dragging, it goes straight up.
Huge thanks to you for posting this! I have just started DSLR scanning my old negs and was struggling with getting the color right. This has helped tremendously!
Wow, I would have never have thought of that - I will have to get the old colour negatives out again and dust them down.. Thanks for a great tutorial Anthony.
Fantastic! Its so easy once we see it, and yet... most of us probably did not came out with the idea of using separate color curves. But: here comes the kicker: This is something what might be resolved by an algorithm from Adobe. And yes , we asked Adobe FOR YEARS to provide help for processing of negatives. They do not care. They care about screwing people into their Creative Cloud scheme, and that infuriates me. That solution is good for pros, who use LR constantly. If some of us do not touch photography for months, we pay for what we do not use, and we risk to lose our work when we stop paying. LR6 is my last product from Adobe.
Excellent Anthony. Adjusting the RGB Curves delivered an amazing result. My screen indicated further adjustments may not even have been necessary. Thank you for sharing you knowledge with me. Subbed and liked.
Your video was EXCELLENT!!!!! I am a novice in color negative. Please tell us if there a new Adobe Lightroom Version unless color negative-to-positive process is very similar. Thank you!!!😅
Hey Anthony, thanks for sharing this precious tip. Well, what kind of scanner do you use? I'm trying to get a good scan by using my flat bed scanner officejet HP 4620, nothing professional. I even tried to "shot" my negatives with my DSLR but results just s*cks. I'm getting mad on how to scan in order to have "real color" results since I don't want to alter colors of my films, otherwise why shall we shoot analog when we could edit a simpler digital camera taken pic? Do you have any suggestion on how to scan at home without any professional equipment?? Thanks gain d
What's the advantage/reason one would go about scanning a negative, as a negative and not inverted true the scanner as most people would. dose it provide a better final product.
marvellous video Anthony, i just went back to film, and this is a great way to handle the conversion!! Thank you! Q...why the point in the middle of the curve? Patrick
Late comment, but it is like a whitebalance...it is affecting the whole color, without changing the black/white points, as with inverting film you always have to color balance.
Nice video I learned a new way to color correct my negatives... but I think it's not working with some of my pictures or maybe I'm doing something wrong. I have a picture where the histogram behind the curves goes all the way from corner to corner so I can barely move the points and the final result is a hard blueish picture. I know it shouldn't look like that, it should look white because it is a picture with direct flash on the subject. What should I do? cut some blue information in shadows and highlights and leave it out of the curve? what if the center point makes me rise even more the blue curve when is in the middle?
I have a lot of problems with the blue, which originaly is the orange tone in the negative, even if I reach a good color balance, I cant get the same balance than a dedicate scanner
Any reason why my positives come out very blue/ cyan when following both this and episode 44 tutorial? Quadruple checked each of the steps. Fine tuned every dial I could. I have proofs of the photos from a lab and color and exposure are fine.
Thanks Anthony. For some reason, when I open the PointCurve menu (editing a jpg or nef), at the bottom there's an option "Negative", which inverts the curve instantly.
+PKGTI That's interesting because that is an option in Photoshop buy not in any version of Lightroom that I have. What version Lightroom are you using? Do you by chance have a plugin from a scanner that may have added that to your version of Lightroom?
+Anthony Morganti Interesting indeed! My LR version is 6.3 (Windows) and I don't have a scanner installed. I do have Google's Nik Collection (v2.1.11) and ON1 Photo 10 (10.0.2) installed.
