Why are my images always so red?

1. Which version of Negative Lab Pro are you using?
v3.0.2

2. If using film scanner, please include: 1) scanner make/model, 2) software used for scanning, 3) settings used for scanning

Plustek OpticFilm 8200i SE. I scan with silverfast and use the settings recommended by in the NLP guide. Then i take the DNG to lightroom and use NLP to convert and edit.

3. Please add the conversion you are having difficulty with, along with a short description of what you are seeing wrong with it.

A lot of the images I convert and edit with NLP have a predominant red tone that’s very difficult to remove, and sometimes it’s almost impossible to get rid of. I mainly use Kodak Gold (35mm).

6. It’s not required, but it’s very helpful if you can provide a link to the original RAW or TIFF negative before conversion. If you don’t want to share this file publicly, you can also email it to me at nate@natephotographic.com

In this link, you’ll find 2 edited images and 2 unedited ones (just converted) to show what I mean about the red tone. The DNG files for all 4 images are also included.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E-P2F5Sv_9tm3o24jvKWtdAqT_rHKiVZ?usp=sharing

Thank you! :slight_smile:

Welcome to the forum @Amnz

Tried your files … and got this:

The upper row conversions are the result of this setting:

Look closely at the (greyed out because I captured the panel after converting) colour model and pre-saturation settings.

Negative Lab Pro does a lot of magic, but there are many possibilities to tune it.
All we have to do is to try things out and see where they take us: To the starting point that we deem the best for further tuning or for export. And whatever the names on the buttons say, we best think of it as “similar” rather than of “identical”. Oh, and btw, did you adjust the WB?

I help myself learning NLP by doing something like this:


Procedure

  • select an image and duplicate and rename it, e.g. as shown above
  • create virtual copies (the star rating is optional, but it helps sorting)
  • convert images with different color models (one per row)
  • convert images with different pre-saturation levels (one per column)