Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, Thanks a lot. Don't know how good my photo is. It's been worked on to death. I should have the original scan someplace. I'll give it a try and when I'm happy I'll re-post. Len On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Don Dory wrote: > Len, > You shouldn't panic, this is a relatively easy correction. If > using PS then > open an adjustment layer:levels. Use the white point eye dropper on > something that should be white in the image; you can use the > pointer to find > something near 255,255,255. Then find something that should be > black and do > the same with the black point eyedropper. Most of the time the > color gets > really close at this point. > > This is your original: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/ > OrchidIsland_1.jpg.html > > and this is what happens after I did the above: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DoryG/On-the-road/ > OrchidIsland_1copy.jpg.html > > Possibly a little bit blue but pretty close to reality as seen by > thirty > year old print film. In actuality I would add another adjustment > layer for > color and tweak in a little bit of yellow back. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 11/27/06, Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> I have a large number of C22 color negatives from the 70's I'm trying >> to scan. I find it impossible to get the color right. I have spent >> hours with the following two images and they still aren't right. Does >> anybody know of a profile for Nikon scanners what will handle C22 >> processed negatives? >> >> Nearly all my old negatives were taken in the Far East in Taiwan, >> Hong Kong, and off shore Islands. About two years worth. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/Orchid+Island/ >> OrchidIsland_1.jpg.html >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/Orchid+Island/ >> OrchidIsland_2.jpg.html >> >> Thanks, >> Len >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information