Turn your Mac into a Light Table
"Light instantly converts your Mac into a light table / light box allowing photographers, film makers, and even doctors to quickly backlight film for viewing."
It costs $ 11.95 and they give you a free 7-day evaluation trial download. I tried it, it works nicely.
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Why not just open up photoshop and put a white background up?
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Tony Flora
Why not just open up photoshop and put a white background up?
or Paint for that matter ...
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What I have found with the white background trick is that while it is okay for viewing negs by holding them a little bit away, you can't really put 'em on the table and go at them with a loupe as the little RGB diodes that make up the computer screen image start to become visible. I can't imagine how this program would get around that problem.
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you have to pay for a white screen? haha!
I've done that on my monitors quite a few times, doesn't work to bad. They get warm though, not sure how good for the film that is (probably doesn't matter though?). Agree with Anupam, works fine for just looking at the film, but not so much with a loupe.
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Wow I can't believe how long it's taken for someone to try and sell what is essentially free.
I've always loaded a Firefox window and used that. Nice and white. No problem.
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You could just use Windows . . . oh wait, that's a blue screen.
:D
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Originally Posted by
Tony Flora
Why not just open up photoshop and put a white background up?
of go into systems prefs, to desktop and change the desktop to white....
Lenny
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Originally Posted by
Anupam
What I have found with the white background trick is that while it is okay for viewing negs by holding them a little bit away, you can't really put 'em on the table and go at them with a loupe as the little RGB diodes that make up the computer screen image start to become visible. I can't imagine how this program would get around that problem.
Are you using a focusing loupe that has been focused for the emulsion of the film?
Re: Turn your Mac into a Light Table
Ken,
Wouldn't it be easier to just flick the on-off switch on a light table? :)
Cheers