Process Film - Goodbye Negative Lab Pro

[@TheDevmapall]

Hi, great tutorial, but I have a suggestion to improve your results from NLP as a long time user: As far as I understand it, NLP works fully on what it can "see" on the screen, so it basically does the same thing that you did in Capture One with the pipettes for the highlights and shadows for all channels in Levels, but it lacks a brain to differentiate what is part of the image and what is part of the frame, so it was just picking shadow for all channels on the emulsion of the film and highlights on all channels on the film holder. In order to get good results from it from the start you need to crop your images before conversion (either using the crop tool in Lightroom to remove all of the frame around the photo, or using the "border buffer" option with preview enabled). Only after you convert the image you can de-crop it back to what you want to have as a final image. Try to see if you can maybe crop one of your images to only show the actual image, then convert with NLP, then after conversion remove the crop and see how that goes :) Also one more note: you can correct the blue tint in highlights to some degree in the White Balance section of NLP by just moving the sliders there in the Highs sub-menu.

[@TheDevmapall]

Ah, one more: with a proper conversion done in NLP color will not shift when adjusting exposure, contrast etc. which is why I still use NLP instead of doing this completely manually. If you want to have a chat and maybe see some heavy NLP based editing then I'd be happy to talk :D

[@aarontharris]

Thank you, that is a great suggestion and makes perfect sense. I will definitely try it.

[@adtechniques]

@@TheDevmapall Do you have any video tuts for NLP convert processing?

[@TheDevmapall]

@@adtechniques I don't, sorry, but maybe I should make one actually... When I get some scans I'll see what I can do and if I post something I'll try to remember to ping you :)

[@adtechniques]

@@TheDevmapall tks you