
It turns out that doing it manually does not take very long at all and provides you with a level of control and knowledge that helps you understand the process.Īt the end of this article you can find a video screen capture of my editing process, to help illustrate how quick and easy this really is. Rather than looking for the one-click option, I wanted to dive deeper and crack the magic secrets of color negatives. While both of those plugins work well for a good number of daylight or normal image exposures, they can struggle when it comes to pulling delicate sunrise/sunset hues out of the highlights in negative film. The former of those two has become quite popular lately and seems to be a great option for many people, however for my drum scans that push 2GB in size Lightroom isn’t all that wonderful for me. Two main choices are Negative Lab Pro (Lightroom Plugin) and ColorPerfect, a Photoshop Plugin. I want to start by mentioning that there certainly are some software options for people looking for automated color inversions.
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It turns out that this manual inversion can work no matter what you use to scan your film with.

While I love sharing my findings with the film community, I wasn’t sure that a technique I developed for drum scanning would be helpful to the average shooter. This means that I had to develop a method to do this on my own that can work for every image I throw at it. While the software for this scanner is incredibly powerful, it falls apart when it comes to inverting color negatives.

It’s been just about three years now that I’ve been using a drum scanner which has drastically changed my scanning process with color negative film. This one is for you DSLR scanning folks, or those who want more control out of your film scanner.
