Writing Photoshop actions for scanned colour negatives

Tom Kershaw · Jul 9, 2010

Hello,

I've been looking into the CF systems 'ColorPerfect' software, although have not installed it yet. However, does anyone here have experience of writing Photoshop actions to correct for colour negatives as an alternative approach to the one taken by the 'ColorPerfect' plug-in? I'm running Photoshop CS3.

Tom

jeffreyg · Jul 9, 2010

I'm not familiar with Color Perfect and only occasionally scan color negatives (b&w is my preferred medium) but I use Silverfast Studio scanning software that has extensive color correcting features. You may want to check it out.

williamtheis · Jul 9, 2010

reversing color negatives

if anyone knows what the procedure is to remove the mask in color negatives, I'd be interested in seeing it (I don't need an action)

williamtheis · Jul 10, 2010

found this after searching. does it help?

http://www.c-f-systems.com/ColorNegs.html

Tom Kershaw · Jul 11, 2010

Bill,

This is related to the 'ColorPerfect' system.

Tom

pellicle · Jul 12, 2010

williamtheis said:
if anyone knows what the procedure is to remove the mask in color negatives, I'd be interested in seeing it (I don't need an action)

much is said on this "mask" stuff but it all seems to vanish (as indeed it is designed to) when scanning. Try this method

http://cjeastwd.blogspot.com/2009/10/quick-negative-scan-tutorial.html

no magic, no mask remains

L Gebhardt · Jul 21, 2010

I use Don Hutcheson's actions http://www.hutchcolor.com/Utilities.html. Not fancy, but guides you through all the manual steps I had worked out (plus a few more I wasn't smart enough to discover). The c-neg action gives me very good color negative scans.

SMBooth · Nov 5, 2010

Pellicle's method works a treat, nice and simple. Thanks for sharing.
I don't normally scan C41 and was having all sorts of trouble.

Writing Photoshop actions for scanned colour negatives

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