Touching up negative scans. Lightroom vs. Elements...

13 years 5 months ago - 13 years 5 months ago #8073 by Karl Wertanen
I'm currently in the middle of having high res/quality scans made of some of my negatives for website creation and for archival purposes. When i get my negatives back w/the new digital files, i'm going to need to do some touch up work where scratches and imperfections from the negatives exist on the new file. I understand that Lightroom has a great image file organizer but does it have the editing capabilities i'm looking for? the scratch imperfection repair and lightness/darkness ? Those are the only editing features i need and will not be using any other editing function. Is one program better than another between editing and file organizing? Or does one program have both editing and organizing features that i'm looking for??
Thanks in advance for any advice and information that i get back. Sincerely appreciated!

Karl Wertanen

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13 years 5 months ago #8075 by Screamin Scott
Like the photo you posted with your post...As to your question though, isn't whomever is scanning these images using a "Digital Ice" equipped scanner? That is supposed to remove scratches & dust from images using a scanner so equipped...Doesn't work well with B&W images though...

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13 years 5 months ago #8078 by Karl Wertanen
Hey Scott, thanks for the response. :)

In a perfect world it would remove scratches and imperfections but there is a limit as to how good of a job that it does. I have an old Nikon LS2000 that has the ICE but it doesnt do a perfect job. There is always editing left to do where the ICE could only fix about 70% of the scratch or imperfection. Maybe now the newer ICE software is better than the old software on my old ls2000 and maybe i wont need to do any of that.. but if i do, i'm just looking for info in advance. i dont have allot of faith in that kind of software. even when i had enlargements made when they scan the negative, there is still spots and some visible scratches...
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13 years 4 months ago #8140 by Yasko
Karl, are your images coming out with a lot of scratches/imperfections? If your negatives are clean, you shouldn't have a lot of this. Antistatic cloth and canned air are a good thing to get when it comes to scanning negs and slides.

Let us know how the high res images come out.


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