Manual Inversion of Color Negative Film

A quick video showing how I manually invert my color negative film. This works for scanners, DSLR and mirrorless scans, and drum scans.

First time doing something like this, the video capture software did not show the cursor in exactly the same spot that it really was, but you get the idea.

[sebastiandisend]

Excellent tutorial. I'm so grateful YouTube still pushes this video 4 years later. In just one go I was able to correct my photo for free (albeit with Photo Shop owned). Extremely useful information with no annoying sponsorships, amazingly straightforward, and easy to follow in a much more modern version of the software.

[elr]

This is a great tutorial that is clear and concise while also explaining the reasoning behind the choices well, much better than other ones that are like "Well it worked for me" or "Just buy Negative Lab Pro!"

[briankelly]

I have just begun to digitize my negatives and ran into the blue/cyan colorcast in them. It was helpful to hear you say that is a common problem and not something going wrong in my conversion. Thanks for this very helpful video.

[Nairaq-ei]

I still come back to this years later! Thank you!!

[vmisev]

Great tutorial, thanks!

I was using a very similar technique some 25 years ago while working on a project which had a zillion negs for a scan (usually, 6x6 positives were the most common job for our drum).

It was an enormous time saver to scan them as RGB negs on Screen 1045AI and convert them in PhotoShop, then to scan them as CMYK positives.

[efimsoldatov]

Thank you toooo much. I’ve just jumped from dslr to slr to dive into the magic of film colours...but twisted with how to add the negatives. You helped me a lot. Thank you again...for the excellent job and for sharing experience.

[frankdiluzio]

Best results compared to any other method I've tried so far.

[hzubovi]

Stumbled upon Your blog. Beautiful color work on your images. Thanks for sharing this tutorial

[mariomelillo]

Wow. Thank you for sharing this! This method is a game-changer for sure. Night and day from using a negative scanning workflow.

[rodrigoquirante]

Hands down one of the best tutorials for scanning film at home! Love from Spain. 🤍

[MrJimGarf]

Spot on. Have tried a few different techniques and this produces the best results. Alex, thank you

[ohjajohh]

I'm about to scan some negatives and will use this video as a guide!

[FlyingFilm]

Great video. For the most part, this is how I edit my images from my color negative film, but I've never tried that first step. I'm looking forward to giving it a shot.

[felix]

the best tutorial on youtube hands down

[felx]

Very good Tutorial! Getting my Scanner today and cant wait experimenting.

[larryg]

Thanks, I worked with a Linhof Technica from 1974 till the mid 90's. I also have alot of 35mm film from before then. This will come in handy as I've always put off converting this work & am now retired with time to spend.

[riyazg]

Great thing I learned is about film border color subtracting layer for white balance.

[BradleyC]

Thank you. I thought I had to buy a program and this made it pretty simple to get a result.

[velocelens]

wow! i think this is the best tutorial i've seen yet. fantastic guide

[HansBaier]

I really have been looking for this information! Thanks!