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Anonymous
Hello /p/

I've been digitizing some family photos from old slides, but unfortunately, most of them were shot on some superfail color film and after 40 years the colors are all fucked up. Does anyone have photoshop techniques for fixing shit like this?
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>> Anonymous
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That's the best I could achieve by playing with curves/levels.

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>> Anonymous
>>110430
Try a little ICE...
>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
>>110455
ICE wont fix this, but ROC will
>> Anonymous
>>110455
That fixes dust and scratches, which aren't the main problem here. Plus, I use a reproduction stand rather than a scanner, so it's useless either way.
>> Anonymous
>>110456
what's that
>> Anonymous
>>110456
Republic of China?
>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
>>110459
yes, its Taiwan, but seriously its Restoration Of Colour.
From what i'm guessing, your taking photos and not scanning the actually films, so ICE, ROC, GEM wont be applicable to you.
>> Anonymous
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I just ran it through fade correction and pushed it to the cool end of the spectrum. Main problem with doing this is blowout though.
>> Anonymous
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>>110462
Heh, while I obviously can't use ICE as it depends on the additional IR scan of the image, ROC and GEM are pure software post-processing and available as photoshop plugins. I'll try to, ahem, acquire them now ;)

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>> Anonymous
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Looks like I'm getting better at this... I discovered, though, that completely getting rid of the yellow tint is a bad idea since my family thinks that "OLD PHOTOGRAPHS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!" lol.

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>> Anonymous
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>>110462
...So I tried that ROC plugin.

IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S FUCKING HDR (but sure beats adjusting every image manually when you have a couple hundred of them)

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>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>110513
well film is HDR compared to digital.
>> Anonymous
>>110514
you know what I meant. Tone-mapped deviantart HDR.
>> Anonymouse !!h5ALjqgB4DE
>>110519
TRUE HDR
>> Anonymous
>>110430
i've never done this before, but wouldn't it make more sense to use a longer focal length, to flatten the image more?
>> Anonymous
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>>110559
A piece of slide film is already flat, how do you flatten it even more?
>> Anonymous
>>110561
i mean lessening distortion
>> Anonymous
>>110564
It's a macro prime with negligible distortion (<1% according to tests on the internet). And even if the distortion was bad, I'm shooting shitty 40-year-old slides in bent cardboard holders, so it doesn't really matter.
>> Anonymous
>>110568
Oh, and incidentally it's also the only 1:1 macro lens I have.
>> Anonymous
You should just scan them.
>> Anonymous
>>110484
>>110435

i like the colors they are bad assssss
>> Anonymous
>>110573
There are some difficulties with that.
I don't have several hundred extra bucks to drop on a decent film scanner just to scan a couple hundred of old slides; also, a scanner won't magically make these shitty colors any better and its superior resolution will be wasted on this film since it has grain the size of my fist.
>> Anonymous
>>110583

You could pay someone else to do it. Or at a pinch borrow their time or scanner.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>110583
You can get a reasonably decent film scanner that'll do 35mm for around $100.

(Your other arguments still stand, though)