New May 2024 update!
Switched to custom camera-specific linear profiles made from Adobe’s DNG Profile Editor. Lots of tutorials online. It was eye opening.
The truly linear profiles has made a huge difference in editing the extremely dense, contrasty slides.
I went from having to use Adobe Neutral, controlling the tint, saturation, vibrance etc and taking down the contrast, upping the whites and lowering the blacks (either via sliders or setting limits on curves), making minor adjustments to highlights occasionally, and making adjustments in Calibration to…
Doing nothing but sharpening and saturation on properly exposed slides. Also, it has shown me I can ETTR more than I have been. The highlights and shadows are so much cleaner now that they are being modified less.
100% this is a thing everyone should be doing if they are not using NLP’s linear profiles on slides already.
I thought things were good already, great even. But this is now even better and makes for a much nicer base to make prints & tifs from.