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Scanning a piece of negative color film

Scanning a piece of negative color film - SilverFast Tutorial

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Scanning a piece of negative color film

In this movie, I am going to go over how to scan negative film working in Manual mode in SilverFast. First, a note of caution. Remember, we are scanning small pieces of film and normally we're enlarging them to much larger dimensions than at which they are starting. So cleanliness is absolutely required here. Any sort of dust that you have in your image is going to be multiplied many, many times. So please review those sections in the other scanning class on cleaning your scanner and cleaning your film, and of course, keeping your hands clean and only touching the film with cotton gloves on, because if you get just a little bit of oil from your fingers on that film and it picks up dust and it's almost impossible to get off. And there is something else about negative film we'll come to in just a minute about handling a film, but I rather show you than just tell you. Okay, so first thing we are going to do is, choose Transparency and if your image doesn't quite fit when you choose…

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