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Photoshop Actions For Color Negative Processing

The document describes a Photoshop action called "Color Negative Processing" that can be used to process scanned color negative film. It contains separate curves layers for toning and color balancing, allowing adjustments without disturbing other settings. The download file contains the action that can be installed through Photoshop's action palette. It provides instructions for opening a raw color negative, selecting the action, and following additional processing steps to tone and process the negative.

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Photoshop Actions For Color Negative Processing

The document describes a Photoshop action called "Color Negative Processing" that can be used to process scanned color negative film. It contains separate curves layers for toning and color balancing, allowing adjustments without disturbing other settings. The download file contains the action that can be installed through Photoshop's action palette. It provides instructions for opening a raw color negative, selecting the action, and following additional processing steps to tone and process the negative.

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Todd’s Photoshop Action for Color Negative Processing

The download file ‘Color Negative Processing.atn’ contains the below Photoshop Actions:

This Action uses a separate Curves adjustment layer for toning, which allows resetting and adjusting the
Color Balance layer without disturbing your composite RGB curve’s settings. It has a moderate ‘S’ curve
applied, which improves visibility when initially performing cropping, mask removal, and color balance.
When using the ‘Tone’ layer for making your contrast adjustment the ‘Color Balance’ layer’s RGB curve
should not be used.

Download the Action file and install it using the following procedure:

1) Save the ‘Color Negative Processing.atn’ file to a folder on your system. You can save the Action file to
any folder and then Load it from inside the PS Actions palette, but I suggest saving it to the Adobe
designated folder for User Presets:

Windows

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop ‘Version’\Presets\Actions

Mac OS X

Users/[Username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop ‘Version’/Presets/Actions


2) From inside Photoshop go to the Action palette and select ‘Load Actions’ using the menu down-arrow
in the upper right-hand corner. Select the ‘Color Negative Processing.atn’ file from the folder location
where you saved it and then click ‘Load.’

3) Follow the Photoshop processing procedure step #1 on page 16 of the ‘Negative Workflow from
Capture to Print’ PDF to open a camera raw color negative image file. Open the Actions palette, select
one of the Actions in the ‘Color Negative Processing’ folder, and proceed directly to steps #5-10 on page
17.

NOTE: If you prefer to do all of your RGB toning inside Lightroom or other non-destructive editor click on
the reset back-arrow icon at the bottom the ‘Tone’ curve layer Properties panel or simply delete the
layer.

If you modify or create a new version of the Action it is important to select the top-level ‘Color Negative
Processing’ folder, and then select ‘Save Actions’ from the Actions menu.

4) When saving the processed color negative Tiff file inside Photoshop use Image Compression ‘None’
and Layer Compression ‘ZIP.’ With ZIP layer compression the file size increases by <100 KB for each
adjustment layer, so there’s no real penalty for adding adjustment layers. Flattening the file will reduce
its size by ~50%. This should only be done after final editing has been completed in Lightroom and other
image processors, you are happy with the results, and you have no intention of editing the image
further. Using ZIP compression for both ‘Image’ and ‘Layer’ doesn’t reduce the file size significantly and
undesirably increases the time required to save the file.

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