CineStill introduces CS Negative+ Convert Tools with SpectraCOLOR™ — an Adobe Lr/Ps plugin for inverting film scans.
The technology behind CS Negative+ is “informed by the characteristic spectral sensitometric curves of traditional RA-4 darkroom prints and motion picture cinema projection prints.” Best of all, the plugins are free:
“The result is more accurate colors, better contrast, and a closer match to the original negative — all while reducing the need for complex color correction in post-processing.”
These Adobe plugins are the next iteration of CineStill’s film inversion product, which they had available on Instagram via Meta’s Spark AR platform (Meta has since discontinued the platform).
In their blog post, cinestillfilm.com/blogs/ne…, CineStill recommends using CS-LITE, a backlight for digital camera setup, calibrated for scanning film.
I got to try the plugins just before publishing this with Sony a7iii scans of my Mamiya RZ67 film. The workflow involves first selecting one of the “START” (CS Negative+ Convert) presets and then one or several of the “PROCESS” (CS Negative+ Tools) presets, and adjusting the settings to change variables like density, tint, etc.
Note: I wrote about inverting film negatives manually in this post, analog.cafe/r/how-to-inver…, and offer a negative inversion product based on the above techniques here: film Q (analog.cafe/app/film-q)
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