Scanning and Post-Processing Colour Neg Film

Version 1.1, page 3, ©2003, 2004 by Dale Cotton, all rights reserved

Photoshop, 16-Bit Work

Fig 5. The VueScan final scan opened in Photoshop

The 16-bit TIFF file for this image, scanned at 4000 ppi, is 125 megabytes and 5776 by 3787 pixels, making it a very good match for printing on Epson's 13" x 19" paper size. Perhaps just a few small adjustments to make before it's ready for that, however... ;)

• 8. After opening the scan file in Photoshop, crop away (or clone in) any black or white unexposed film edges you may have missed in VueScan.
• 9. Check at 100% mag. whether noise (esp. sky and shadows) and scratches are acceptable:

Fig 6. Checking scan quality

Tips: In almost any dialogue or when using most editing tools you can hold down the spacebar to temporarily get the hand tool for panning (thanks, Andy!). You can also use Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn to pan left and right.

If the noise or the amount of scratching are too bad then you may want to return to VueScan to apply a stronger level of IR cleaning and/or Grain Removal.