Hi, I’m running into an issue in which converting negatives brightens them way too much and creates a lot of noise and essentially nukes the photo. In the attached contact sheet you can see the white border which is the black mask from the scan, as I crop out this border the conversion eventually nukes the picture entirely creating so much noise, contrast, colour shift etc.
Currently using v2.3.0
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Closer example
I will note the darker conversions are a lot cleaner and have more than enough latitude to bring them up and retain quality. The skintone highlights in the brighter images are clipping.
Is there a way to set the exposure manually so that the automatic conversion exposure doesn’t just choose to go way too far to the right?
NLP inverts tone curves and tries to get white and black points at both ends of the histogram. Where that end is can be changed by the settings highlighted below.
Negative values move the ends of the tone curve “inwards” and that unclips the highlights and blacks.
Moreover, you can also use the sliders of NLP, save the settings and make them your default.
I’ll give that a go. Thank you so much!
