Converting a colour photo's negative into a positive using photoshop?

[love2learn]

Hi,

I'm sorry if this has been discussed before but I was trying to figure out if there is a way of converting a negative into a positive on photoshop. I've looked through some tutorials on the net and some of them require special scanners and I don't think I have this. Any other way using a regular scanner?

[mikerob2334]

I'm not sure on this as I've never needed to do it but I would think you could do a levels adjustment and then adjustment>invert. Best bet is to use a film scanner though. They will do this automatically.

[mikerob2334]

Did a quick Google search and found this: ColorNeg I'm sure there are others out there.

[zona5101]

this?
Tutorial 6 Neg to Pos - Page 1

[mikerob2334]

Originally Posted by zona5101

this?
Tutorial 6 Neg to Pos - Page 1

Wow! Surprised to see I was actually close. Invert 1st, then levels.

[love2learn]

Originally Posted by mikerob2334

I'm not sure on this as I've never needed to do it but I would think you could do a levels adjustment and then adjustment>invert. Best bet is to use a film scanner though. They will do this automatically.

Hmm. I guess it's cheaper to just go to a photo studio.

Originally Posted by mikerob2334

Did a quick Google search and found this: ColorNeg I'm sure there are others out there.

Wow. I'll look into that. Thanks.

Originally Posted by zona5101

this?
Tutorial 6 Neg to Pos - Page 1

I tried this tutorial but I'm not sure why my results weren't the same. I had a lot of blue tinge to the photo.

[kirbinster]

I use Vuescan software with my scanner and it takes care of this directly.

[love2learn]

^ Neat! Thanks. Can you post any results of how it worked for your negatives?

Funny how I never though about searching for additional softwares. lol.

[kirbinster]

Here is one of my daughter that was taken with a 35mm camera about18 years ago.