gwydionjhr Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 I'm new to AP. I'm scanning some old negatives, and in TIFF/HDR mode Silverfast leaves a negative as a negative image. Can someone walk me though how I can easily invert the image and then correct the colour balance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Layer > Invert will turn a negative into a positive (Shortcut Ctrl + I). There are loads of options for colour balance. Automatic tools and use an Adjustment layer like Colour Balance, White Balance, HSL Adjust etc, Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 At the top left of the SilverFast screen there is a group of icons. The second one is labelled Positive. If you click on this, you have the option of selecting Negative (or Kodachrome). Just select Negative. ..... Hope this works for you. It works for me. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwydionjhr Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 8 hours ago, John Rostron said: At the top left of the SilverFast screen there is a group of icons. The second one is labelled Positive. If you click on this, you have the option of selecting Negative (or Kodachrome). Just select Negative. ..... Hope this works for you. It works for me. John Except when you're doing 48 bit HDR, it just scans the RAW image and doesn't create a positive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 This question was posted on the SilverFast forums in 2009. SilverFast responded: "8 bit HDR color scanning mode generates unmodified RAW TIFF files which act like a digital negative. It means no changes are applied during the scanning process, this includes the positivation of your negatives.If you want your endfiles to appear as positives, you will have to use the 48 bit color mode (without HDR)." So it means that you will have to follow @toltec's advice and not mine. You might like to follow this link from SilverFast. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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