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Tatt2Guy
13th of December 2009 (Sun), 16:13
this photo i love but it was converted from 35mm to digital, and i'm not sure what to do with it to make it what it screams to be.....
rw2
13th of December 2009 (Sun), 16:36
Not much to work with.
theodre
13th of December 2009 (Sun), 16:41
what did you do to it Rw2? (if i might ask?)
rw2
13th of December 2009 (Sun), 17:15
what did you do to it Rw2? (if i might ask?)
I ran noise ninja. Then made a duplicate layer. One one layer I decreased the brightness and on the other increased the brightness. I used the sky from the darker layer and the rest from the lighter layer. Flattened the image and them increased the saturation.
theodre
13th of December 2009 (Sun), 17:38
Looks good ....
Bob_A
13th of December 2009 (Sun), 19:07
this photo i love but it was converted from 35mm to digital, and i'm not sure what to do with it to make it what it screams to be.....

How was this scanned (type of equipment, resolution, multi-sampling, tiff or jpeg)?
Tatt2Guy
14th of December 2009 (Mon), 16:26
i took it a long time ago with a pentax 35mm
and i thin k it was orriginally processed at walgreens as jpeg... but i dont have any other data on it i dont remember what lens or any settings.....
Bob_A
15th of December 2009 (Tue), 22:40
i took it a long time ago with a pentax 35mm
and i thin k it was orriginally processed at walgreens as jpeg... but i dont have any other data on it i dont remember what lens or any settings.....

If you really like the image and want to work on it get a high quality scanning service to scan it to TIFF at high res such as 4000 DPI with 4x multi-sampling. They should also apply Digital ICE to get rid of dust and scratches. The resulting file will be huge (maybe >50MB) but will give you a lot more to work with. I get rid of grain, apply curves and do color corrections in Photoshop instead of during the scan (i.e., I don't apply Digital DEE, ROC or GEM when scanning).

Since my negs are pretty old and are more memories than art I scan most of my images to jpeg using my Nikon Super Coolscan 5000ED (one of the best dedicated film scanners available unless you go with a drum scanner) unless I have a difficult one where the shadows are pretty dense or the highlights are almost blown ... then I scan to TIFF. Any images I'm proud of get scanned to TIFF.