Gonna give Negative Lab Pro a test run. Any pointers before I start the trial? I'm liking what I'm seeing. My v600 / VueScan work flow is good for most things, but I'd love to scan with a macro, and try to get the Noritsu colors my lab gets without splurging all the time. I took a year break from film and I'm already over budget after a few weeks of shooting. Will be picking up another c41 kit from FPP, too.
imagesfromobjects wrote:
Gonna give Negative Lab Pro a test run. Any pointers before I start the trial? I'm liking what I'm seeing. My v600 / VueScan work flow is good for most things, but I'd love to scan with a macro, and try to get the Noritsu colors my lab gets without splurging all the time. I took a year break from film and I'm already over budget after a few weeks of shooting. Will be picking up another c41 kit from FPP, too.
Just watch the demo and pay attention to the fact that you have to crop out everything that is not
the actual image before you convert. Otherwise it will get an inaccurate colour fidelity and weird cast.
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Desmolicious wrote:
Just watch the demo and pay attention to the fact that you have to crop out everything that is not
the actual image before you convert. Otherwise it will get an inaccurate colour fidelity and weird cast.
Good to know. That's pretty much how VueScan behaves, too. It takes an average of everything within the chosen crop area, so if you have any of the unexposed negative or a bright specular highlight, or (god forbid) a speck of dust, it can throw things dramatically in a particular direction. Gonna watch the video tonight, maybe start the trial soon. I saw something on Reddit where the developer was participating in the discussion and it piqued my interest. Folks are getting really good results out of it. Yours look awesome!
Try the Kodak ROC plugin for Photoshop. They have a trial version. Not without some limitations but they are minor and can be worked around with some practice. Overall possibly the most marvelous hardware-independant piece of software for color corrections that I have came across so far.
Borders or no borders it just works.
The workflow could be as simple as open the neg, invert and apply the plugin. "Digial" source works better than "Film" most of the time.
It was designed to color correct positives so it shines in that area too.
The Kodak plugin looks great but, unfortunately, it won't work with the newer Adobe 64 bit apps on Mac or Windows. There's a plugin you can buy that will allow 32 bit apps to run inside a 64 bit app, but it's Windows only. (And only claims it works up to CS6)
I'd say Negative Lab Pro is the smart investment since it should be fully supported in the future. When I get the time to shoot some film again, I may actually try Portra or Ektar again because NLP seems to solve the color reversal issues I had with those films in the past.
