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!
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.
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!!!
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!!😅
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
so sad that you didn't get to make your point with the middle dot on the tone curves because of the photo you used. it would be very interesting to see you elaborate on that to get better colors for photos that need it.
How do I get my scans to be this raw? I turned off every color correction setting but the scanner still has a great blue cast to it, making this impossible to do.
I learned more from this single video than from all the hundreds of videos I have seen the last year.
I can't believe literally no one is talking about how satisfying Nice tutorials voice softs.
Great vid Anthony. Thank you.
TIP: Hold SHIFT when moving the point curve and it'll stick to the vertical axis
Thanks!
1.25 is the best speed for this video :)
actually at 1.75 it feels like it's normal speed
Superlative. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
this was so helpful, I just spent 5 hours trying to find a way around this and this video solved all my issues
This is a very efficient technique!! I love doing these in multiple layers on photoshop but this is super cool! 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!
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.
A very useful lesson for all aspiring softians
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!!!
this is the best video on the topic I found to date !
This looks really good. I don't see enough people showing this method. Instead everyone tries to sell you on NLP
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.
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.
One of the better (best) straight forward inversion tutorials. Thnx
Your tutoring is the best.
Very good explanation.
improved my negatives a million times! thank you!
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.
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.
Excellent video.
Really helped my work today.
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!
Very easy to understand, the way you explained it. Thank you so much.
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.
This process produces so much better results that others, great!
Honestly, one of the best tutorials I’ve watched!!!
What a great video strait to the point!
Would be great if there was a plugin that flipped the channels and tuned the "curves" right were they need to be. Great tutorial, thanks!
Negative Lab Pro
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.
Thank you very much! You just made my life a lot easier! Exactly what I've been looking for!
Very interesting. I enjoyed your presentation. Your a good teacher.
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!!!😅
Well done Anthony. This is a great instructional video
WoW!!!! This is Awesome!!!! Thanks Anthony!!! This is the best way!!!!
What a huge help this has been. Really appreciate your time making this tutorial. Cheers
This is brilliant - very useful!
Thanks Anthony - I will be searching through my old photo packets in search of negative strips!
your video is so helpful and just save my life
Awesome! I will try this method out when Silverfast struggles
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.
they finally have a seperate app(? for lightroom called negative lab pro you can try it out if you have lightroom :)
This is the most helpful video!!! Thanks for uploading!!!
another great video Anthony. thanks.
Thank you for this video. It's so useful for me. I've done it to the presets.
Great video and teacher you are. I was wondering if can iluminate me, about how is the best way to scan a negative. Thanks.
best video on the internet
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.
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
Bit of a late reply but if your still having issues try watching Matt Days video about scanning negatives with a dslr. the results are amazing
Thank You So much for thoroughly Breaking this Down !
This is amazing, thank you! I rescanned a whole bunch of old negs and this yields much better results than vuescan
Very clear and understandable - thank you!
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.
Outstanding results!!!! Thank you.
Nice one. I'm gonna try this method out
Very helpful ! How would this apply to black and white negatives
Hello Anthony.. your videos are really helpful. could you please training on Photoshop cc 2015?
Great tutorial! Will try this out!
If you hold the shift-key down when you change the curve, it will not go outside and reset it self.
Well explained - Thankyou
Looks like a great way to get a positive image with the right colour balance. I'll try it in Luminar AI tomorrow. Don
Thanks for this genius technique 🙏
Wow! Super thanks Anthony! I’ll open my old photo stocks. Plenty of work ahead. :)
Same here. All my children's images. Thousands.
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.
this was a 30 second lesson in 10 min
Could have been an import script in less than a second.
Can you point me toward a video or article with info on how to actually scan the negatives?
My pixels look a lot different, it starts from the left corner.. and if i do with all the colors, still looks bad.
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
This is great! Very helpful, thank you
wow love that color beautiful
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Amazing process!
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?
Impressive! Most Impressive!
Michael, tNice tutorials is the best soft soft Video Tutorial ever.
Isn't that the same as doing the basic curve inversion followed by Auto Levels? Which will stretch each RGB channel levels?
Oh wow, I've gotta find some old negatives!
Huge help, thanks!
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.
This is awesome!, thank you for this.
I never knew that in order to get it balanced image you have to find where the blue red and green Channel stop and end
Wouldn't inverting the entire image before adjusting the individual tone curves avoid the problems with exposure controls you show here?
is there anywhere i can download a copy of the negative so I can try it. I don't have any negatives of my own.
Does this method only work with properly exposed photos?? When I try this on some photos it just turns pinkish red at the end
very nice, very clear thank you!
Great video! How do you find out these things?
+Bjarne Strand-Henriksen I spend far too much time behind my computer! ;)
+Anthony Morganti lol
Is this method better than Negative Lab Pro plugin?
so sad that you didn't get to make your point with the middle dot on the tone curves because of the photo you used. it would be very interesting to see you elaborate on that to get better colors for photos that need it.
Yeah, I wondered what the point of adding that reference point was.
Good comment.
Kollimatorn o
Very useful, thanks.
How do I get my scans to be this raw? I turned off every color correction setting but the scanner still has a great blue cast to it, making this impossible to do.
THANK YOU
THIS WORKS
when you white balance a photo in PS, run levels on each channel and you will get perfect WB. Same thing.
OMG thank you. So much better.
thanks a lot Antony
Where can I find the his scanning process?
I did it in gimp few seconds ago, it works awesome :D
Amazing how the picture file contains color information that it got from the negative..
Can you turn this into a preset
I just tried it and my colors came out all weird. Not sure what else to do. Any ideas are appreciated.
why dont you take the white balance?
Great stuff!!!!
That's pretty amazing!
Awesome Thanks !