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Scanning and digitisation

Your negatives deserve better than a phone photo

You have developed negatives and want to scan them properly. Not to share on Instagram, but to have quality files that hold up for large prints or professional editing. Learn to extract everything that's in the negative.

The negative is the original. The scanner reads it.

A well-developed negative contains a lot of information. When you scan it badly — wrong settings, incorrect colour profile, insufficient resolution — you lose a good part of what’s on the film. And when you scan it well, you have a file that holds up for any use: a large-format print, an in-depth edit, an archive that will last for decades.

In this workshop we work with the lab’s flatbed scanner and its scanning software, applying the professional editing criteria that make the difference between an acceptable file and a definitive one.

Contents

Scanner and settings

  • How a flatbed scanner for negatives works
  • Resolution: how much you need for each use (web, print, archive)
  • Basic and advanced settings: exposure, colour, grain reduction
  • Format differences: 35mm, medium format, large format

Colour management

  • ICC profiles and colour spaces: sRGB vs AdobeRGB vs ProPhoto
  • Colour negative vs black and white: how to approach each case
  • Negative inversion: methods and losses

Editing in Lightroom and Photoshop

  • Import and catalogue: organising your archive from the start
  • Tonal corrections: whites, blacks, highlight and shadow recovery
  • Dust and scratch removal: tools and criteria
  • Export: formats, metadata and file naming

What’s included

  • Use of the lab’s flatbed scanner for the full session
  • Sample negatives available if you don’t have your own
  • Exportable settings for your own scanner (profiles, presets)

What to bring

  • Negatives to scan: developed 35mm or medium format (your own or sample)
  • Laptop with Lightroom or Photoshop installed (essential for the editing section)

Not included

  • Lightroom or Photoshop licence (you must already have one; it is not provided)
  • Your own scanner for practice at home

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Objectiu
Digitise analogue negatives to professional quality: optimal scanner settings, colour management and editing of the resulting files in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Metodologia
Hands-on work with the lab's flatbed scanner. Each participant works with their own negatives (or sample material) from the first scan to the final edited file.
Resultat
4–8 negatives digitised to archive quality. Complete workflow: scanner → colour management → editing → export. Exportable settings for your own scanner.
Prerequisits
Developed negatives (your own or sample material). Basic Lightroom or Photoshop knowledge is helpful but not required.
A qui va dirigit
Analogue photographers who want to digitise their archive to professional standards, without going through a third party and without losing quality.

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