Easily Develop a Negative Film with [Photoshop] in [3 Simple Steps]

Easily Develop a Negative Film with [Photoshop] in [3 Simple Steps]

if you have a lot of old negatives laying around some mini cupboard or your old photo

albums jus like so what a better way to kill time rather than

trying to develop them in the Photoshop doesn't that sound like a good experiment it

actually is and the great

news is it's possible how ever the quality of the image that comes out of these negatives

depends upon three things number

one lighting how you light these negatives when you take a picture of them number two

of course the lens how much can

the lens magnify this film so if you have a macro lens that would be the best and number

3 the quality of the film

now here comes the important question how do we take a picture of this film simple make

the screen of your phone white or run a widescreen

video and then keep the film in front of it and simple take a picture make sure not any other

light in the room is falling on this film and then take a

picture it it would be best if it's a darkroom how ever I got to pick it up now when you take

a picture keep the film away from the screen you

know why let me show you here's a picture of the film dashing the screen it looks alright

how ever when you zoom in have a look look

at these pixels and these banding they are not from the film they are from the phone they

are from the light because they're so

close that each pixel of the light isogonal show up how ever when you do keep a gap what

happens is when you focus on the

film this gets blurred and that's what I did in the second photo I simple this is too much DIY

have a look at this I jus kept the container

on this side another container on the other side and placed the film on top of it jus to create

a gap and then took a photo of it you

see there is none of that banding and all these grains that you see that's jus because the ISO

of the camera was too hot and

I was too lazy to set up a tripod and do a long exposure anyway that's how he take a photo

now again if you had a macro lens you

could have made it even bigger how ever I jus had to take it with my 24 to 70 because

I don't have that kind of macro

money once you take the picture the rest of the magic will happen in Photoshop so without

any further ado let's get started what is negative

it is actually a negative what do we have to do make it positive and how do we make that

positive by simple inverting

it so let's create an inversion adjustment layer click on the adjustment layer icon

and then choose invert it does look

much better now we need to correct the color take away the blues and all that can

happen with curves so click on the adjustment layer

icon and then choose curves now in here what color in this scene or any of these

scenes should happen gray

or neutral figure that out so my opinion of course it his shirt should have been

gray so select the middle eyedropper

click on that one and jus click on his shirt and that colors have been you can also

try clicking on different areas to see

what looks best for you now do keep in mind this is tot ally non destructive we

can adjust this at any point of time

and also this is art you don't have to get it absolutely accurate you jus have to

make it look attractive these boatmen look nice

all we have to do is to increase some contrast in here so take the Snyder from the

left to the right all right

you can also hold the Alt key or the option key jus when you begin to see these

artifacts in the image that means the

details are going away from the dock area similarly let's do the same for the bright

areas all right let's stop right there and then

you can work the curves and maybe increase the contrast a little bit jus like so

if you want to adjust and edit

the colors further you can go to the different channels red green or blue and make

manual adjustments however to

make curves simpler there's one more adjustment layer and that its called color

balance click on the adjustment layer icon

and then choose color balance jus right there now do keep in mind color balance

is jus a simplified version of curves

anything jus that color balance makes it simpler so we wanted target the mid

tones so select the mid-tones and

then jus add a little more yellow to it jus keep it the way it is in the shadows you

want to take away the greens so

let's go to the shadows and jus add magenta to it magenta is the opposite of green

and a little bit yellow some red

or the opposite of it you can take all the time in the world to adjust these colors

once you are happy with the

colors all you got to do is to jus crop it out now for different images you might have

to adjust everything different jus crop it so select

the rectangular marquee tool or any tool of your choice I'm gonna make a square

sorry a rectangle right there

press C for the crop tool hit Enter or return boom there you go of course we need

to crop it and you can do that

you get the idea so that's how we can develop a negative very

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