Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread William
Thanks for your appended reply. I tried the invert function and it is not doing what I want to do. I want to rescue old color negative 35mm film strips by inverting them to a color positive that I can print on a color laser printer. The negatives have an orange cast which inverts to

[Gimp-user] download not working

2021-04-19 Thread Discovery - Charles Brabec
Hi, I downloaded GIMP twice but after the install process completed, it cannot be found anywhere. No Icons, no search mode shows its whereabouts. All I keep getting is the setup window. What now? Thanks! ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:

Re: [Gimp-user] download not working

2021-04-19 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Monday, April 19, 2021, 13:57:09, Discovery - Charles Brabec wrote: > Hi, I downloaded GIMP twice but after the install process completed, it > cannot be found anywhere. No Icons, no search mode shows its whereabouts. > All I keep getting is the setup window. What now? Thanks! If you're on

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 13:24 +0200, William wrote: > > I want to rescue old color negative 35mm film strips by inverting > them to a color positive that I can print on a color laser printer. > > The negatives have an orange cast which inverts to monochrome blue. I > tried some other invert

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread William
Thanks. Attached is an example of the negative film strips I want to inverse to a printable color positive. Regards, William McCreight -Original Message- From: Liam R E Quin [mailto:l...@holoweb.net] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 2:39 PM To: William; gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread Guy Stalnaker via gimp-user-list
William, I believe that you're dealing the "orange" color of the film substrate of the color negative film. A simple "invert" will not invert to a "normal" color positive. That orange color must be dealt with (as I'm sure is obvious to you by now). I believe that this is what you should

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread Kevin Cozens
On 2021-04-19 7:24 a.m., William wrote: I tried the invert function and it is not doing what I want to do. I want to rescue old color negative 35mm film strips by inverting them to a color positive that I can print on a color laser printer. The negatives have an orange cast which inverts to

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread Guy Stalnaker via gimp-user-list
Kevin, Thanks for this link! Guy On 4/19/21 2:08 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote: On 2021-04-19 7:24 a.m., William wrote: I tried the invert function and it is not doing what I want to do. I want to rescue old color negative 35mm film strips by inverting them to a color positive that I can print on

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread Guy Stalnaker via gimp-user-list
And the manual steps to do this - NOTE: the scan MUST include part of the film substrate (e.g., where the sprocket holes are) to do this: https://robert.hawdon.net/2010/07/14/how-to-recover-photos-from-the-negatives-using-gimp/ You'll basically add a layer that is the color of the substrate,

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread Rick Kline
Here’s some info on Negative Darkroom that Kevin Cozens mentioned. It’s more of an outline than a help article, but thought I’d share nonetheless. gimp-2-10-24-released Rick * * ** *** * *

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread Kevin Cozens
On 2021-04-19 6:05 p.m., Rick Kline wrote: Here’s some info on Negative Darkroom that Kevin Cozens mentioned. It’s more of an outline than a help article, but thought I’d share nonetheless. Just for the record, it was Alexandre Prokoudine that mentioned Negative Darkroom. Thanks for the

Re: [Gimp-user] Rescuing old color negatives

2021-04-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 21:09 -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: > On 2021-04-19 6:05 p.m., Rick Kline wrote: > > Here’s some info on Negative Darkroom that Kevin Cozens mentioned. > > It’s more of an outline than a help article, but thought I’d share > > nonetheless. > > Just for the record, it was