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all right so scanning film negatives has
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always been one of those things where
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I'm constantly experimenting and trying
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new things because software updates and
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just because of that my preference for
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film to be honest so I'm always kind of
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taking new approaches to it whether I'm
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using different settings whether I'm
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going for less in the scanner and more
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in Photoshop and things like that so
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it's it's always kind of just a
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give-and-take so today I'm going to be
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walking through how to scan film
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negatives at home with the apps on
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perfection g550 I'll take you through
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color and black and white and also how
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to get your film borders just in case
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you want those in the photos as well so
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we're going to go ahead and start by
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opening up apps on scan go ahead and
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make sure make sure your scanners on
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first then any quick refresh
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okay so now that you have apps on skin
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murdered up this is epsilon skin - they
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recently updated it I think around the
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start of 2020 and it's in my opinion
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it's not as good as the first software
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they had there was a lot more advanced
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settings that you could use to make sure
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your whole roll was scanned at the same
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kind of color tone but that's beside the
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point we're just gonna go over how to do
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it in epsilon scan - let's go ahead and
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start with some black and white film
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we'll go ahead and start off now let's
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start with color film I'll take you
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through the color 35-millimeter process
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and to start I usually like to make sure
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your your white background is taken off
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and then I usually like to wipe down the
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scanner just to make sure there's
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once I do start scanning today I'm going
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to be scanning all to film negatives
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that I've already taken so there's not
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going to I'm not going to need to cut
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the photos or anything like that but
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normally my process would be after I've
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cleaned on the scanner I cut my my
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negatives and then load them up onto the
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scanner but so to start I'll show you
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how to scan it with the borders usually
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you'd be using one of these which helps
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line everything up on the scanner and
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also just make sure your photo is right
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in the middle but just as a preference
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thing I usually like to scan the borders
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with the photo so I'll go ahead and just
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place it on the scanner but that way you
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can get the full negative
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to see which way you need to go you'll
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need to find go ahead and put it against
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the white back the backdrop and you can
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see you know Kodak torture and if you
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can read it then you're looking at it
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the wrong way so you'll need to turn it
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the opposite way face that down
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so that when the scanner scans it from
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this side it looks up and it scans at
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the proper way rather than scanning the
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mirror image so I'm gonna go ahead and
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stand by lining it up in between these
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two lines so that it stays right in here
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it's easy with 35 millimeter cones but
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for 120 film it's usually a bit harder
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because it it takes up about the wick so
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you get more on off to the edges and
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things like that so it doesn't need to
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be perfect but I'm a smelly the retinas
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Center and so moving into the software
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you're gonna need to select what I have
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up here you have to photo mode I don't
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have anything for scan settings but make
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sure this is on transparency unit not
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scanner glass and make sure your
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document type is color negative phone
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with 48 bit color and then you can scan
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it whatever resolution you'd like today
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I'm gonna just scan it steps under to
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make it kind of a bit quicker and then
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you can go ahead and change these I'm
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gonna go ahead just show preview before
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I changed up the image format and file
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type and things like that
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all right so now you can see the
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negatives and this button right here is
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going to delete the old squares you got
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cut out for the last ones and I'm gonna
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go ahead and just click and drag a
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square over it and you can kind of
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manipulate your photo from here but I'd
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rather zoom in and see it so I'm gonna
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go ahead and zoom in right here so from
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here you can see the scan isn't perfect
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all the colors aren't there and
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everything and for me this was always a
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big problem when you move it if you get
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rid of some of the black some of the
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colors will change actually so this can
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kind of just play with your head because
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you don't know what exactly you need to
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do to get it perfect so a lot of people
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I know when they come in they just start
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by clicking and dragging around
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um the best way for me is actually to go
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up to advanced settings then click
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detailed adjustments and then I I like
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to use the histogram adjustment some
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people prefer tone correction which I'll
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get into but this is again and I like to
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push it to the farthest point over here
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and then I also drag this one down to
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the furthest point here that way you get
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a flat look and then the middle slider
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is what you'll find used for almost as
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an exposure tool and then in image
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adjustment you can change colors and
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which I'll actually go ahead and
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brighten this up it looks a little
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darker and then you can also come in to
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tone correction and this is where you
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can get right hast more color to not
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actually good nice vintage tone right
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there so let's go in it I'm gonna go
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ahead and just change this to I like to
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skin everything at TIFF just use a
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higher quality and let's go ahead and
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all right so let's go so there's the
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full full scan at 600 DPI resolution so
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it looks really nice I think it's really
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good but the color tone to me still
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looks a bit off so I'm gonna go ahead
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and kind of rework it a little bit when
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you don't have the borders in it it will
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definitely help you out with your color
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tone the blacks and the yellows
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definitely take into a big effect so
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what I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do is
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just go ahead and scan it with the
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regular scan settings that they had put
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on once I laid the file over the
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negative and I'm gonna go ahead I'll
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make a few color tone adjustments just
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because I think it could be a bit warmer
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Gotham tonight so I'm gonna go ahead and
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awesome so the next one is skinned and I
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think the color tone on this looks
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definitely better you can see definitely
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this looks way flatter almost looks like
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it hasn't been color graded or anything
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yet and then this looks definitely more
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vivid more bright so there's definitely
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some pros and cons to capturing the film
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order so definitely keep that in mind
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you can also play with this in Photoshop
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so that you would be able to get this
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photo basically with this kind of border
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that just takes a little bit more time
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in post-production but that's good for
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the color negative let's go ahead and
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also scan a120 a medium format photo
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with the scanner as well and I'll show
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you how to scan the borders for that too
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so again make sure your your photo is
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based down on the scanner so that it's
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not mirrored when you go to scan
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let's go ahead and check out the preview
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all right so it's it's not perfectly
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lined up as you can see but I think it's
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definitely good enough to get to
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negative nine even with the film order
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so let's go ahead and see this as well
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just to get some better detail
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all right so now you're zoomed in and I
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can see that it's definitely overexposed
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partially because it was black that I
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have left out so I'm going to just drag
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that in it'll help with the color tone
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right off the bat and next I'm gonna
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just pop the details adjustments open
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and kind of play around with these
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settings a little bit more you see that
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adds a bit more contrast and bring some
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colors right out and then I'll just go
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ahead and also play with the color just
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a little bit I try not to mess with
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diesel a lot because it definitely will
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change the film a lot and I tried like
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to be as natural as possible but I do
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think it helps for surf so I think this
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looks good right now so let's go ahead
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let's open that up and that looks nice
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standing on 120 is definitely really
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rewarding because you get to see all the
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color times seeing the border and
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everything with it after the whole
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process is just really nice so let's go
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ahead and I'll also show you how to just
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scan some stuff like this one of the
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just a film orders just in case you want
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to use it on our unit projects you can
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go ahead and zoom in on that as well the
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zoom feature is one of those things
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where you don't need to use it but it
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definitely helps especially when you're
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trying to get the colors right and
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trying to get all these details so here
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you can see this is a nice found border
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that you can use for a lot of photo
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projects anything like that looks pretty
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cool though yeah and now you can see
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the fabric in this think that looks
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pretty cool you could use that as a
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little film board or kind of thing so
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let's describe it and so now I'm gonna
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be going over how to scan some
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black-and-white film so it's relatively
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the same exact process the only
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difference is that you're gonna have to
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change your settings on your scanner
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let's just go ahead into the main
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settings go ahead and click another
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16-bit grits go and click on black and
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white negative film it's gonna pop you
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and then go ahead and get your black and
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white film ready again make sure your
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film is based on so that it's not in
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let's get a preview perfect so it's
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lined up and let's go ahead so this
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actually looks just a bit overexposed
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but other than that because it's black
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and white the background isn't affecting
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it too much that a little bit more now
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you already get some more contrast and
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detail in the highlights and I'll just
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open up advanced settings of detailed
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just to play with this to see the
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effects it I kind of like that a little
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contrast like hazy feel and then pulled
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this down to get more detail on
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highlights now you can see especially if
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you look on her forehead right here you
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lose track of the highlights if this
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gets too far next that peak so I like to
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keep it as low as possible and then it
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might look a bit flat and dull now but
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in photoshop that's what I'll bring in
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kind of want rightness because I think
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you get more or you obtain more
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highlight details in that way but you
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can also change the middle slider I
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think has a big effect on the photo and
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I like that easy look but I like the
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contrast to so I'll go ahead and leave
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it right there and let's go ahead and
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scan this photo as well
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and so they don't look perfect so yeah
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it does look a little dull and
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definitely not as bright as it should
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but in Photoshop that's what I'll do the
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kind of brightening effects I think if
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you do it here you definitely lose some
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color and add some highlight detail but
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let's go ahead and also scan this this
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other photo just so you can get another
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example of black and white okay so it
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looks a little bit overexposed right now
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but let's go ahead and move the borders
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in and I'll bring this so this is just a
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this is definitely a preference thing I
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just want to show you how it kind of
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works so that you can see what the
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different kind of tools will do to your
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they're definitely kind of pretty
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self-explanatory you just got to play
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around with them a bit like I said
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before though the one downside to all
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this is that the apps on scan software
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does actually update quite a bit so
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you're kind of stuck with
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you're kind of stuck with always
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learning and adapting to their settings
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rather than being on your own terms but
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I think all in all scanning negatives
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with apps on perfection v5 50 and apps
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on scan - it's definitely a simple
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process that anybody can do once you get
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the scanner in the software just takes a
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bit of trial and error so if you have
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any questions feel free to leave a
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comment below and I'll get back to you
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as soon as possible but thanks for
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watching guys have a good one
