Carriage
Established
I've found that method before but never understood why it's necessary given that a colour enlarger head and RA4 paper don't know anything about the image.
Toastybunzz
Member
Don't worry about doing all that manually, I was very thankful to find a Photoshop action that does the job of inverting and adjusting the color levels to remove the orange mask.
I got it from here to credit him. Fortunately I saved it because it looks like he removed them.
Here's a link to my Drive, which has the action.
HERE
It does a better job than I was able to manually and only takes a second or two. You'll still have to color correct but it makes the process much less painful.
I got it from here to credit him. Fortunately I saved it because it looks like he removed them.
Here's a link to my Drive, which has the action.
HERE
It does a better job than I was able to manually and only takes a second or two. You'll still have to color correct but it makes the process much less painful.
Zuzu
Member
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
This is an old thread, but I'll comment anyway. The complicated method in #17 looks like the method posted by Burton long ago, in the era of Photoshop 5. Google "burton orange mask color negative" to find it; it's been reposted a number of times. It's not my preference, but some report good results.
Earlier in this thread I recommended Color Perfect (in ColorNeg mode). That was then, and now we have further options. Today, for camera-scan of color-negative material, I highly recommend Negative Lab Pro, a Lightroom plug-in.
Also, from late 2017 for some months, I had a thread going here on conversion of color-negatives. (Or Google "color-neg challenge" to find it.) Lots of methods, tools, and examples mostly in Photoshop. The "Film Actions" linked by Toastybunzz are included. FWIW, the Burton method was not mentioned.
I asked then, "Will no one free us from this orange mask?" I think NLP is the breakthrough we've been looking for.
Earlier in this thread I recommended Color Perfect (in ColorNeg mode). That was then, and now we have further options. Today, for camera-scan of color-negative material, I highly recommend Negative Lab Pro, a Lightroom plug-in.
Also, from late 2017 for some months, I had a thread going here on conversion of color-negatives. (Or Google "color-neg challenge" to find it.) Lots of methods, tools, and examples mostly in Photoshop. The "Film Actions" linked by Toastybunzz are included. FWIW, the Burton method was not mentioned.
I asked then, "Will no one free us from this orange mask?" I think NLP is the breakthrough we've been looking for.