Need help to identify and restore old negatives.

It would help if I could identify
the negative material. The negatives measure 2.25 x 4.5 inches. They are orange-brown in color and have no identification markings except for two sets of holes along the edges that look like this:
Left edge (7 holes) o o O o o O O

Right edge (12-13 holes) o o Ooo ooO oO O O O

Hi group,

I

Hi group,

I

I’m trying to restore some color photos taken in New York about 1946. I have 6 negatives, but only 3 of the original prints. All of these are faded, the negatives worse than the prints. I have been able to scan them and restore the images created from the prints, but not those from the negatives.

Hi group,

I

"Mike Russell" posted:
"…
I have an example of restoring faded film in my Misfortunate Images Tutorial. If your image turns out to be of general interest, I’d like your
permission to add it to the tutorial.
http://curvemeister/tutorials/misfortunate/
…"

Just an FYI:

I’m getting all kinds of 404 Errors from your URLs.
Not only is the URL you posted bad (note the missing ‘(dot)com’), but others also seem to have problems.

Your tutorials are actually on
http://curvemeister.com/tutorials/

where the URL for the "Misfortunate Images" page is given as http://home.pacbell.net/geigy/tutorials/misfortunate/index.h tm
Which comes up with
"…
Not Found
The requested URL /geigy/tutorials/misfortunate/index.htm was not found on this server.

RSD99 wrote:

"Mike Russell" posted:
"…
I have an example of restoring faded film in my Misfortunate Images Tutorial. If your image turns out to be of general interest, I’d like your
permission to add it to the tutorial.
http://curvemeister/tutorials/misfortunate/
…"

Just an FYI:

I’m getting all kinds of 404 Errors from your URLs.
Not only is the URL you posted bad (note the missing ‘(dot)com’), but others also seem to have problems.

Your tutorials are actually on
http://curvemeister.com/tutorials/

where the URL for the "Misfortunate Images" page is given as http://home.pacbell.net/geigy/tutorials/misfortunate/index.h tm
Which comes up with
"…
Not Found
The requested URL /geigy/tutorials/misfortunate/index.htm was not found on this server.

Thanks very much for the heads up. The web pages have been fixed. http://curvemeister.com/tutorials/

BTW – the tutorials do use curvemeister, and the curve files are compatible, and the actual curve operations can be duplicated using Photoshop’s normal curves.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

RSD99 wrote:

"Mike Russell" posted:
"…
I have an example of restoring faded film in my Misfortunate Images Tutorial. If your image turns out to be of general interest, I’d like your
permission to add it to the tutorial.
http://curvemeister/tutorials/misfortunate/
…"

Just an FYI:

I’m getting all kinds of 404 Errors from your URLs.
Not only is the URL you posted bad (note the missing ‘(dot)com’), but others also seem to have problems.

Your tutorials are actually on
http://curvemeister.com/tutorials/

where the URL for the "Misfortunate Images" page is given as http://home.pacbell.net/geigy/tutorials/misfortunate/index.h tm
Which comes up with
"…
Not Found
The requested URL /geigy/tutorials/misfortunate/index.htm was not found on this server.

Thanks very much for the heads up. The web pages have been fixed. http://curvemeister.com/tutorials/

BTW – the tutorials do use curvemeister, and the curve files are compatible, and the actual curve operations can be duplicated using Photoshop’s normal curves.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Does the curvemeister work with other PS Plugin compatible programs like Jasc PaintshopPro?

Hi group,

I’m trying to restore some color photos taken in New York about 1946. I have 6 negatives, but only 3 of the original prints. All of these are faded, the negatives worse than the prints. I have been able to scan them and restore the images created from the prints, but not those from the negatives.

D.R. wrote:

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

RSD99 wrote:

"Mike Russell" posted:
"…
I have an example of restoring faded film in my Misfortunate Images Tutorial. If your image turns out to be of general interest, I’d like your
permission to add it to the tutorial.
http://curvemeister/tutorials/misfortunate/
…"

Just an FYI:

I’m getting all kinds of 404 Errors from your URLs.
Not only is the URL you posted bad (note the missing ‘(dot)com’), but others also seem to have problems.

Your tutorials are actually on
http://curvemeister.com/tutorials/

where the URL for the "Misfortunate Images" page is given as http://home.pacbell.net/geigy/tutorials/misfortunate/index.h tm
Which comes up with
"…
Not Found
The requested URL /geigy/tutorials/misfortunate/index.htm was not found on this server.

Thanks very much for the heads up. The web pages have been fixed. http://curvemeister.com/tutorials/

BTW – the tutorials do use curvemeister, and the curve files are compatible, and the actual curve operations can be duplicated using Photoshop’s normal curves.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Does the curvemeister work with other PS Plugin compatible programs like Jasc PaintshopPro?

Unfortunately, PSP does dot work with Curvemeister because it uses some of Photoshop’s more advanced features that are supported by PSP.

The tutorials for the RGB examples can be adapted to PSP, and the curve file format is the same.

Hi group,

I’m trying to restore some color photos taken in New York about 1946. I have 6 negatives, but only 3 of the original prints. All of these are faded, the negatives worse than the prints. I have been able to scan them and restore the images created from the prints, but not those from the negatives.

The negatives were scanned in a transparency scanner and the histograms adjusted in Photoshop. But, the colors are very wrong. They don’t agree with the colors in the prints nor with the tones in the scenes. It almost appears that the red and blue layers are reversed (is this possible?).

I don’t know if the colors have shifted because of the fading or if this is due to the type of film. It would help if I could identify the negative material. The negatives measure 2.25 x 4.5 inches. They are orange-brown in color and have no identification markings except for two sets of holes along the edges that look like this:

Left edge (7 holes) o o O o o O O

Right edge (12-13 holes) o o Ooo ooO oO O O O

(the right edge hole spacing varies slightly on each print, and some of the holes even overlap)

I would appreciate any help to identify this material and advice on how to restore these images. I can supply a sample of the RAW and TIFF files, if needed.

Thanks,

emr