Original negatives

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by obcbeatle

PS: In order to keep Willie Davis's LA on his cap from being backwards I had to scan with the emulsion side up. I thought better scanning results would be to scan with the emulsion side down on the glass? Am I missing something as far as keeping the photo negative the correct orientation, but being able to scan with the emulsion side down?

Scan emulsion side down, and just flip it in Photoshop or whatever image editing program you use. Pretty much all of them should have something like "Flip Horizontal" which is what you would want to use.

FWIW, I wouldn't worry about emulsion up/down until you're using an actual negative scanner. I doubt you will be able to tell any difference when scanning with natural light since the image will be sub-par either way.

[obcbeatle]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

Scan emulsion side down, and just flip it in Photoshop or whatever image editing program you use. Pretty much all of them should have something like "Flip Horizontal" which is what you would want to use.

FWIW, I wouldn't worry about emulsion up/down until you're using an actual negative scanner. I doubt you will be able to tell any difference when scanning with natural light since the image will be sub-par either way.

Thanks Lance ... that did the trick! For anyone else that might be interested in this and is not too familiar with Photoshop (like me) ... to flip the image, go to Image/Rotate Canvas/Flip Canvas Horizontal. This is of course different from inverting the negative image scan which is Image/Adjustments/Invert in Photoshop. Anyway ... that's what was confusing me ... and that is something that is not too hard to do :-)