How to Get Stunning Color Negative Film Photography
Last Updated on November 22, 2022 by Peter Wood
Color-negative film photography is a special analog film filter for weddings and portraits. But it is difficult to make color negative film photography with negatives and vintage cameras. If you chase unique film effects and grains, you can use a photo editor to analog instead of films.
WidsMob AI Retoucher has simplified the whole thing and is a stunning analog maker. You can adjust and apply dozens of film presets and camera profiles within one tap. Moreover, there are a series of HSL adjustments to customize the color negative film effect.
Part 1: Color Negative Film History
Negative is the lightest part of photography, in which the areas of the photographed subject appear darkest while the darkest parts appear light. It offers ISO speeds for better exposure latitude. The color negative film can scan to print by non-photographic means. You will find that the contrast and colors are almost true to life. Because of nearly fewer limitations about user operating, using color-negative film is the popular choice for amateurs.
Kodakcolor should be one of the most famous negative film photography manufactured between 1942 and 1963. The kodakcolor-X negative film came between 1963 and 1974. Kodakcolor II was initially released in 1972 and had an update in 1973.
Part 2: How to Apply Color Negative Film Effects
Being a professional analog film effect and film grain photo editor, WidsMob AI Retoucher can apply different color negative film filters to photographs and make the analog film as desired. It has 4 color rendition profiles and 28 camera profiles that include 5 color negative film filters for Kodak and Fuji camera profiles. Besides the basic color negative film effects, you can also find multiple filters to adjust the light lenses, HDR filters, textures, and more. You can get a whole series of HSL adjustments to touch up photos, enhance colors and reduce noise.
- Provide multiple stunning color-negative film presets and camera profiles.
- Discover stunning effects, such as analog film filters, light lenses, etc.
- mpatible with JPEG, TIFF, AVIFs, WebP, and most RAW formats.
- Tweak Contrast, Saturation, shadows, etc. to go with color-negative films.
How to Render Color Negative Films for Photographs
When you need to apply color negative films for photographs, the program enables you one click to apply the desired effect. Moreover, you can adjust the other parameters, such as saturation, contrast, tone, and film grain, and design the color negative film photography.
Step 1: Once you have installed WidsMob AI Retoucher, you can launch the program and click the Import button to upload the desired photos into the program. The program supports JPEG, JPG, AVIF, WebP, as well as multiple RAW formats.
Step 2: Double-click the photos and go to the Filters menu. Select the Color Negative Film button from the Color Rendition Profile option. There are 5 different preset color negative film filters with stunning effects. Just take the photo of dawn beach as an example.
Kodak Portra 160VC
Kodak Portra 160NC
Fuji Superia Reala 100
Fuji Superia X-tra 800
Fuji Superia HG 1600
Step 3: When you need to further edit the color negative films, you can click the Adjust menu to tweak exposure, contrast, saturation, highlights, vibrancy, tint, temperature, and noise reduction filters. Moreover, you can also adjust the color tones accordingly.
Step 4: Before saving the photos, you can also explore the other filters and AI effects, such as AI cartoonization, AI style transfer, and more. It enables you to convert photos to cartoons, multiple paintings, and sketches with just one click.
Part 3: How to Make Color Negative Film Manually
You can also try to use chemicals to create color-negative film effects. It is not difficult to develop color-negative film manually. You can DIY at home with a few steps within 10 minutes. That’s fun to make color-negative film scanning. Just follow my steps.
Color negative film materials
1. Tetenal C-41 Press Kit, bilx A, bilx B
2. Film tanks and film reels
3. A pitch-black room or film changing bag
4. Hot water, can opener, a funnel, a thermometer, a measuring breaker, a squeegee
Color Negative Film Developing Process
Step 1: Heat all the needed chemicals with the hot water to nearly 39 centigrade.
Step 2: After warming up, pour the extra water out in the developing tank and pour in the developer.
Step 3: Repeat the above steps to the left chemicals.
Step 4: Wash the negatives to get out of blix.
Step 5: Add the stabilizer and agitate for about ten seconds, and then pour them back into the bottle.
Step 6: Wait for drying out the color negative film or use some tissue to wipe.
Part 4: Color Negative Film Comparison
What should be the differences between the two methods to apply the color negative film? When you use WidsMob Retoucher to apply the color negative-film effects, you can restore the photo effects within one click if you are not satisfied. But for making color negative film manually, if there is a simple mistake, it will destroy the whole thing.
You should try the color-negative film materials several times to apply the best result. You only need to adjust some parameters without destroying the original photo.