The dark slides are probably just underexposed. Try scanning them in. Set the brightness higher as needed in your scanning software after you get a preview. Make final corrections after scanning in PhotoShop. They won't be great, but if there's an image on the film, you can improve it. Paul On Aug 26, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> Hey all... got a film-related question here. I was going to scan > in a bunch of 35mm color slides from a family trip 20 years ago. Some > of > them were accidentally cross-processed by the lab... I think as color > negative film (very dark?). Maybe they were just underdeveloped. I > don't > know. > > I was going to scan in all the non-broken ones and archive them > digitally. Is there any way to at least partially save the dark ones? > I > haven't scanned any in yet to see if the colors are wonky, or they're > just > dark. > > Any ideas? I'm not looking to restore them perfectly... just > extract a decent rendition of slides that the family has never really > "seen." > > -Cory > > -- > > *********************************************************************** > ** > * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA > * > * Electrical Engineering > * > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University > * > *********************************************************************** > ** > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
