negatives to photographs --- free software?

[dkb]

Is there any free software that would print negatives into photographs?
I at the moment do not want to purchase a scanner having this facility.
Please suggest.
Thanks in advance.
veshno

 

[John Inzer]

Is there any free software that would print negatives
into photographs? I at the moment do not want to purchase
a scanner having this facility. Please suggest.
Thanks in advance.
veshno

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The first step is trying to aquire a good scan...
the followng articles may be useful for that:

Let's build a TMA
http://www.scantips.com/basics12e.html

What about film scanners?
http://www.scantips.com/basics13.html

Once you have the scans....most image
editing software has a Negative option
that will reverse the image. For example...
in IrfanView you would open the image
and go to...Image / Negative.

Download IrfanView
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html
(get the plug-ins too)

And, in FastStone Image Viewer you would
select the image and go to...Edit / Negative.

FastStone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

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[sinoline]

I don't know of any free software but check out Vuescan it is only
around $50. You can download it and play with it for 30 days but the
pictures will have a disclaimer posted across them.
Here is how I rigged up my camera:
http://www.pbase.com/sinoline/35mm_slide__film_copy

Good luck!

Rolf

 

[dkb]

==================
The first step is trying to aquire a good scan...
the followng articles may be useful for that:

Let's build a TMA
http://www.scantips.com/basics12e.html

What about film scanners?
http://www.scantips.com/basics13.html

Once you have the scans....most image editing software has a Negative
option
that will reverse the image. For example...
in IrfanView you would open the image
and go to...Image / Negative.

Download IrfanView
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html
(get the plug-ins too)

And, in FastStone Image Viewer you would
select the image and go to...Edit / Negative.

FastStone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Thanks for the guidance. I scanned a colored strip. After that tried
Irfanview and FastStone, but did not succeeded and the print out was
just a haze.
dkb

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

Thanks for the guidance. I scanned a colored strip. After that tried
Irfanview and FastStone, but did not succeeded and the print out was
just a haze.

Color negatives have an orange "mask" and require a special "demasking"
operation to recover the original colors.

-michael

Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

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