In practice I would normally amend these settings to get a colour and contrast setting to suit my taste. I left the colour settings at “Auto Levels”. I have also shown, as the first image in each set, the output you would get if you just used VueScan in a basic manner to create a positive TIFF or JPEG direct from VueScan. The locations are in the Ardnamuchan area of Scotland, or in the case of the flower and chillis, my garden. These were shot with a Mamiya RZ67 and home developed using the Cinestill powdered C41 kit. The results below show 10 images taken with two Kodak film stocks Portra 400 and Gold 200. I don’t have Negative LabPro, but I do have ColorPerfect, so decided I would do my own comparison between the output of ColorPerfect and Grain2Pixel. There is a good article on 35mmc which reviews Grain2Pixel and compares the output against Negative LabPro. I purchased ColorPerfect some time ago and recently downloaded Grain2Pixel to try it out – an easy decision with a free product. Negative LabPro is a Lightroom add-in whilst ColorPerfect and Grain2Pixel work with Paintshop. There are at least three software options currently available that I know of: But if the scanner broke down I would consider switching to DSLR scanning.) The main reason is that I already havea scanner, and don’t own a Digital SLR. (I use an Epson v700 scanner, rather than DSLR scanning. If you choose to make a digital copy with a digital camera, you will be creating a negative image, so you will have to use additional software to invert the image. Alternatively, you can create a “raw” scan, which will be negative, and use additional software to invert that negative into a positive image. If you choose to use a scanner, you can use the functions of the scanning software (such as EpsonScan, VueScan, or Silverfast) to amend the colour and contrast settings of the resulting image. You can send your film to a lab and get them to scan the film after development you can scan with a flatbed or dedicated film scanner or you can scan with a digital camera, with a copy stand and light source. The question of how to achieve a positive image from a colour negative file is a hot topic for many photographers, with many competing options.
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