# Scanning Slide Film (Fuji Velvia / E-6)

**URL:** <https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/scanning-slide-film-fuji-velvia-e-6/3055>\
**Category:** Digital Camera Scanning\
**Created:** [December 20, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/scanning-slide-film-fuji-velvia-e-6/3055 "2020-12-20T16:21:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![sleepysentry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sleepysentry](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/sleepysentry)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/scanning-slide-film-fuji-velvia-e-6/3055/1 "2020-12-20T16:21:24Z")

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I’v read through the guides here for scanning with camera and importing into Negative Lab Pro. When converting in Lightroom with Negative Lab Pro, there are no color options for Slide Film / E-6. No matter which option I choose the final product always ends up with inverted color.

Am I missing an option somewhere? It seems like this should be supported but I can’t find the right selection in the plugin.

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**Author:** ![Digitizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Digitizer](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Digitizer)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/scanning-slide-film-fuji-velvia-e-6/3055/2 "2020-12-20T20:48:00Z")

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Negative Lab Pro (NLP) is meant for the conversion of _negatives_.

_Slides_ need not to be inverted, therefore you do not need NLP for slides - unless you want to try this:

> [@Improve old transparencies with Negative Lab Pro](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/improve-old-transparencies-with-negative-lab-pro/2983):
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> I’ve just tried something. I’ve inherited a load of transparencies that date back as far as 1950ct. Most of the older transparencies have shifted colours due to age, storage and whatever other causes might exist. I wanted to see if I can use NLP’s internal process to improve the overall appearance of the transparencies. This is what I did changed orientation and cropped to taste adjusted WB and the RGB tone curve created a virtual copy inverted the RGB tone curve launched NLP This is what I…

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**Author:** ![sleepysentry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sleepysentry](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/sleepysentry)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/scanning-slide-film-fuji-velvia-e-6/3055/3 "2020-12-20T21:06:09Z")

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Thanks, this link is helpful. And I guess I am so accustomed to scan software handling both negatives + positives so I didn’t consider taking the name “Negative Lab Pro” so literally. 😉