![]() ![]() Skies will sometimes look unnaturally turquoise instead of blue, reds may look over-saturated, and shadows can have an occasional colour cast that needs to be dealt with after conversion. ![]() Negative Lab Pro is an excellent tool, and usually results in good-looking colours and tones. Colours will sometimes look OK, other times not, and in many instances you need to find neutral tones within an image to help the tools adjust for white balance and colour accuracy - the problem being, such neutral tones don't occur in every photo. RawTherapee, Darktable and DigiKam's negative tools can work well, but the results are inconsistent and highly dependent on the elements within the captured negative. Finally, I've carried out manual conversions in GIMP. I've also used the commercial Negative Lab Pro plug-in for Lightroom. Of these, I've personally tried RawTherapee's "Film Negative", Darktable's "Negadoctor", and DigiKam's "Color Negative" tools. There are plenty of tutorials on the web for this, employing a variety of different methods. Then, of course, it's possible to manually invert negatives in editors such as Photoshop and GIMP, and fine-tune colours using curves, colour balance and other adjustments. I'm sure there are others I've not listed or discovered yet. There are numerous software methods available to assist with conversion of camera-digitised colour negatives - commercial plug-ins for Lightroom and Photoshop such as Negative Lab Pro, Negmaster and ColorPerfect / ColorNeg, as well as integrated tools in open source raw converters and image editors like Darktable, RawTherapee and DigiKam. so here it is!Ĭolour-Accurate Conversion of Camera-Digitised Film Negatives using GIMP 2.10 and RawTherapee 5.8 I felt a more-thorough and descriptive tutorial was warranted - hosted entirely on PentaxForums, without reliance on external video (especially given my poor video production skills ). I recently posted my personally-developed method for converting camera-digitised colour film negatives to positives using GIMP and RawTherapee, but this was an overview and largely reliant on an off-site YouTube video I created. ![]()
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