Best and easiest photo editing software?

Eleven · 10-27-2011, 06:23 AM

Some all-in-one printers have negative scanning abilities. Are they standard size slides?

I have a ton from my grandfather and I haven't been too successful so far, but I have bee able to rig up my own ghetto style scanner.

I took my regular, old all-in-one Lexmark, removed the lid (it popped right out of its hinges, I think that is a feature) and then I built a frame from cardboard the same size as the glass on the printers scanner.

Then I stretched a plain opaque white trash bag over the frame and taped it all down. This created a "light box" type of apparatus. From there I put the negatives on the scanner glass, the frame over top of that and then I position a fluorescent light over the "light box" and scan as normal.

You must have some sort of back-light to get the scanner to read the negative correctly. Gimp can reverse the scan, and I think plain old "Paint" in windows can as well.

Here are a couple of the first ones I tried:

And, dear old Grandpa and Grandma:

10-27-2011, 06:23 AM	#6
Eleven Solid As The Sun Join Date: Aug 2009 First Name: Scott Location: SW Ohio Posts: 1,859 Trading: (23)	Re: Best and easiest photo editing software? Some all-in-one printers have negative scanning abilities. Are they standard size slides? I have a ton from my grandfather and I haven't been too successful so far, but I have bee able to rig up my own ghetto style scanner. I took my regular, old all-in-one Lexmark, removed the lid (it popped right out of its hinges, I think that is a feature) and then I built a frame from cardboard the same size as the glass on the printers scanner. Then I stretched a plain opaque white trash bag over the frame and taped it all down. This created a "light box" type of apparatus. From there I put the negatives on the scanner glass, the frame over top of that and then I position a fluorescent light over the "light box" and scan as normal. You must have some sort of back-light to get the scanner to read the negative correctly. Gimp can reverse the scan, and I think plain old "Paint" in windows can as well. Here are a couple of the first ones I tried: And, dear old Grandpa and Grandma: __________________ CA: putting the 'man' in bromance since 2008! --markem.