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Can I easily and automatically fix contrast and color on a 35mm scan that contains sprocket holes?

I often prefer to scan film including the sprocket holes, especially when the image bleeds over the perforations a little bit, as in this example: The raw results from the scanner are usually very ...
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How to get accurate color and contrast when scanning shots with no black or white point present?

To correct the initial color balance and remove the orange mask of a scanned color negative we would normally set black and white levels to just barely clip each color channel. This works fine with ...
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How to use colour charts and patches for color restoration of old photographic films?

I work for an institution with a large photographic archive of art, containing among other things colour negatives and ektachrome films. My team is digitizing the films and in the meantime we want to ...
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How to remove orange mask from negatives scanned without transparency adapter?

I'm trying to create really quick, low-quality scans of sheets of sleeved color negatives for my electronic catalog. I am not trying to scan negatives in the proper sense (i.e. to actually produce ...
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How can I remove color cast created by a defective scanner?

I scanned my photo using an HP Scanjet scanner, but scanner CCD sensor has a problem and the result is a scanned image as below: As you can see in the image, there is additional color cast. Is it ...
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What's the best way to remove discolouration of scanned photographs?

I'm got a batch of printed photos which I am scanning to store a digital copy of and possibly enlarge them for printing. I've scanned them at the maximum quality (600DPI) and saved it with the least ...
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