Photos printed in negative

[Gwyn in Kent]

I visited distant cousins today and included in the family photos were some printed in negative.
ie. on photographic print paper, but all the shading reversed, 'white' was black etc.
Can these be made into normal photographs? Would it be possible to do this on our computer (by someone cleverer than me)... or do we need a professional?
We are keen to see them as one photo is possibly of a family wedding in 1936.

[WendyPusey]

Yes, if you have a graphics program that will reverse it. if you want to send them to me I'll have a go as I have a program that will do that.

[Darksecretz]

I visited distant cousins today and included in the family photos were some printed in negative.
ie. on photographic print paper, but all the shading reversed, 'white' was black etc.
Can these be made into normal photographs? Would it be possible to do this on our computer (by someone cleverer than me)... or do we need a professional?
We are keen to see them as one photo is possibly of a family wedding in 1936.

if you have 'paint' on your computer

start>>>accessories>>>paint

then open image up in paint, goto tools>>>invert image that should rectify the problem

[RNM]

Yes easy peasy
just scan the pic into your computer and you can change it - from negative to positive .... it'll be an option in tools......... you could probably do this from the scanner if it accepts negatives..

Roger

[Britec]

Hi Gwyn

You can use somethink like this, you dont even need a computer. real fast and saves them to memory card, then take card to photo developer and pick what you want to develop or it has a nice usb cable to connect to your pc well worth the money, its much faster and better than a scanner.

Remember this is just one type there are others on market

Veho VFS-004 5MP 35mm Negative & Slide Scanner: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

[WendyPusey]

Hi Gwyn

You can use somethink like this, you dont even need a computer. real fast and saves them to memory card, then take card to photo developer and pick what you want to develop or it has a nice usb cable to connect to your pc well worth the money, its much faster and better than a scanner.

Remember this is just one type there are others on market

Veho VFS-004 5MP 35mm Negative & Slide Scanner: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

I have one of those and it only scans negatives and slides!!

Gwyn has photos printed in the negative.

[Britec]

See thats the trouble with men they never read the whole thing
anyway its still a good bit of kit even if i got it all mixed up trying to dig meself out of this deep hole :D

[babe62]

Gwen

You would be better of to take the negatives to a photo shop and get them to reproduce the photographs you wanted. Easier and quicker......

[Just Gillian]

Hi Gwyn

You can use somethink like this, you dont even need a computer. real fast and saves them to memory card, then take card to photo developer and pick what you want to develop or it has a nice usb cable to connect to your pc well worth the money, its much faster and better than a scanner.

Remember this is just one type there are others on market

Veho VFS-004 5MP 35mm Negative & Slide Scanner: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

Brian - I was given one of these for Christmas. I haven't tried scanning negatives, but have found it absolutely useless for slides - almost all turn out over-exposed and with loads of detail lost. On top of that, I can't use the software supplied with it to calibrate it as it crashes my PC every time. If I had bought it myself, I'd have sent it back for a refund.

[Britec]

what model is it Gillian, you should not get much loss of photo quality from a negative or slide unless there damaged, beacuse they don't suffer from deteration as much as photos do. Thats copys them at 5mp which is real high quality. All my ones turn out a treat with no loss, its like they was taken yesterday.


This is my one

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.detail/params.item.561192/walk.yah.UKEL-UK16

[Just Gillian]

It's VFS-004 deluxe Brian

The slides I was doing are mostly from the 60s. I think the problem lies mainly in the automatic exposure/colour balance thing - most of my blue skies were coming out white, the sunlit sides of faces were white and the shadowed sides almost black etc. etc. At least 90% of the results were unuseable.

[Gwyn in Kent]

So sorry about the delay in answering, - I unexpectedly had to go out.

Thank you for all your help and interest, ..and Thank you for your kind offer Wendy. I don't actually have the photos, They belong to my 2nd cousin, who thought she would need a specialist photographers, but I thought that maybe the clever people on FTF would come up with alternative ideas, - as you have.
I will contact her tomorrow and see what we can manage now that you make it sound so straight forward.
Many thanks.

[Britec]

Gillian there may well be something wrong with the unit because it should not be that bad, mine come out great and I have real old ones as well.

[Just Gillian]

Brian - as it was a gift, I wouldn't have told the person who gave it to me that it might be faulty anyway, but, judging from many of the reviews on Amazon, I'm not the only one who has encountered the exposure problem. I think it is a failing in the design that it cannot be adjusted.

Gwyn - I'm sorry about digressing on your thread.