Matching Lab Colors without success

Hi @xsnudes ,

Yes, it is possible to get your camera scan very close to your lab scan with just a few simple adjustments in Negative Lab Pro, and tweaking in Lightroom’s HSL panel.

The most important adjustment above is adding yellow and magenta to the “highs” color tab. This gets the color balance closer to this particular lab scan. Using “LAB - soft” and adding both “Lab Glow” and “Lab Fade” helps bring the tonality closer. And finally, to match the color of the red suit, I’ve used the HSL panel in Lightroom (on the original RAW) using the tooltip and dragging on that part of the photo until it is closer.

Here are the HSL settings I ended up with.

hsl-adjustments

It’s up to you, but once you learn the tools in Negative Lab Pro and how they work, it is very quick to edit or match scans. It took me about 30 seconds to match your scan… but of course, I have a slight advantage being the developer!

Hope that helps!

-Nate