Well done, Pat!
Well done, Pat!
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Having given up on Adobe, I have lost the use of the ColorPerfect plug-in for PS. Affinity Photo has only a rudimentary invert command, so I have been trying to find my best way of dealing with colour negatives in the future, assuming I bother with them as I do prefer B&W. This was an Ektar 100 shot, developed in a Unicolor presskit, and taken with the Rolleiflex before the great camera sell-off. This time I scanned it as a raw file with Vuescan and the Nikon 9000, inverted it with Graphic Converter, then tweaked it with Apple Photos and Nik's Color Efex Pro 4 and Viveza 2. This is about one quarter of the original negative, so it's a bit soft, but it didn't come out too badly, given the awkwardness of Ektar.
I've had surprising luck with Affinity by doing auto-color before an invert. For challenging inversions, I fall back to Darktable and the negadoctor plugin.
Thank you! It does work and only cost me $46CDN. One note for users of modern Macs, you have to install both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the ColorPerfect plug-in for it to be recognised. Secondly, since the plug-ins are Intel versions, if you have a new ARM-based Apple Silicon Mac, you must run PhotoLine in Rosetta. Then everything works as it should.
Carburetors should be out where they can be admired (and fiddled with). 1975 BMW R90S. 80mm lens with 8 mm extension tube, TriX film, scanned from print.
[IMG]BMW R3N6 LFF by John Olsen, on Flickr[/IMG]
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