Convert/transform scanned negatives?

Started by martinn, June 08, 2025, 02:47:40 PM

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martinn

Hi! I have scanned negatives and would se them tranformed to images. I´ve done it before som I know it´s possible but now I can´t find out how I find this function..?
Martin Nordström

Mario

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do.
Scanned negatives usually means that you already have images, produced by your scanner (usually in TIFF format)?

martinn

Yes, I have black & and white negative images – I don´t want them to be negatives but positives. 
Martin Nordström

Mario

You can load them in your image editor of choice and apply a "Negate" (sometimes called "Invert") command.
In Photoshop, the command is Image > Adjustments > Invert (<Ctrl>+<I>). If you use another image editor, the command will be named differently.

martinn

OK. Maybe it was Photoshop I used last time... I´d hoped for it beeing possible in Imatch. Thanks anyway.

/M
Martin Nordström

Mario

Quote from: martinn on June 08, 2025, 06:50:06 PMOK. Maybe it was Photoshop I used last time... I´d hoped for it beeing possible in Imatch. Thanks anyway.

/M
No, IMatch has intentionally only limited image editing (Batch Processor, mostly).
There are many excellent free and paid image editors out there, and I don't think it would be a good use of my time to try and re-invent the wheel and spend years on creating yet another image editor. I'm doing DAM right, and leave editing to others.  ;)