Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

[Rick Kline <rick kline ms>]

Here’s some info on Negative Darkroom that Kevin Cozens mentioned. It’s more of an outline than a help 
article, but thought I’d share nonetheless.

gimp-2-10-24-released <https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/03/29/gimp-2-10-24-released/>

Rick
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> On Apr 19, 2021, at 3:08 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca> wrote:
>
> On 2021-04-19 7:24 a.m., William wrote:
> > I tried the invert function and it is not doing what I want to do.
> > I want to rescue old color negative 35mm film strips by inverting them to a color positive that I can 
> > print on a color laser printer.
> > The negatives have an orange cast which inverts to monochrome blue.
> Restoring old negatives involves more than just a colour inversion. The colour balance is likely to be off. 
> I have 400 colour slides to scan and restore that date back to the last 60s to mid-70's. I know the colour 
> balance is off as the red has faded over time. I don't yet know about any changes in brightness and 
> contrast.
>
> One other (non-GIMP) approach to fixing slides that you may be able to adapt to negatives by adding a 
> colour inversion step can be found at:
>  http://www.lionhouse.plus.com/
>
> I haven't tried it yet but I'm thinking about it. It was mentioned in this mailing list some time ago.
>
> -- 
> Cheers!
>
> Kevin.
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