Coping 35mm slides

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Hi. I have been backing up my collection of 35 mm slides with great success using a Ricoh 5300 but I have tried to do the same with the negatives. Photoshop generates a reasonable positive but the sky always comes up quite grainy. Is there any type of filters / addins that could be used on the negatives or pre-process that would help it out? I sure hope there is. Thanks

-- Jerry Denker (jerrydenker@earthlink.net), August 11, 2000

Answers

Hi There is a way to deal with grainy skies or other expanses of the same color. Simply select the sky. The magic wand tool will generally work if tollerance set right. Then use the gauessian (bad spelling) blur filter. The grain will vanish.

Have fun

-- Art Hansen (arthanse@fone.net), August 11, 2000.


Jerry,

you should have uniform grain throughout your image. Which version of Photoshop are you using? Go to http://www.ickybits.com and check out Roberts Ultra-sharpen 2 action. Load it and run it on some photographs and see how you like it. I use it most of the time--he has updated it to a plug-in, but I have yet to download it and try it. I don't think much of the gaussian blur suggestion although it will hide what you are having a problem with.

-- fred (fdeaton@hiwaay.net), August 11, 2000.


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