Kodachrome adjustments
Kodachrome can get “the blues” from poor processing and/or poor keeping. Some years ago, Applied Science Fiction had some very good photo adjustment software. ROC pro (Return Of Color pro) worked quite well with little user input. The drawbacks are: 1. It was developed in an era of smaller photo files and will not work on large pixel files. 2. It was taken over by Kodak (ugh!!!) and I have yet to see any improvements as to adding 64 bit use or increasing the file size it will work with.
Paint Shop Pro 9 had a “one step photo fix” button that works alone or in conjunction with other photo altering programs. It does a surprisingly good job with almost no user input especially considering its age. Much newer versions are out with many new features and inclusion of 64 bit operating systems.
Upper left is a crop of a 1960s Kodachrome that has the blues.
Upper right is the view after using PSP one step with no additional user input
Lower left shows the view after running ROC pro with no additional user input.
Lower right shows the view after running ROC pro but manually adding 7 red and subtracting 3 blue plus changing the default “digital” to “film”. This view looks a little purple-skied next to the other ROC pro view but the people look most lifelike in stand-alone mode.
Kodachrome adjustments
Kodachrome can get “the blues” from poor processing and/or poor keeping. Some years ago, Applied Science Fiction had some very good photo adjustment software. ROC pro (Return Of Color pro) worked quite well with little user input. The drawbacks are: 1. It was developed in an era of smaller photo files and will not work on large pixel files. 2. It was taken over by Kodak (ugh!!!) and I have yet to see any improvements as to adding 64 bit use or increasing the file size it will work with.
Paint Shop Pro 9 had a “one step photo fix” button that works alone or in conjunction with other photo altering programs. It does a surprisingly good job with almost no user input especially considering its age. Much newer versions are out with many new features and inclusion of 64 bit operating systems.
Upper left is a crop of a 1960s Kodachrome that has the blues.
Upper right is the view after using PSP one step with no additional user input
Lower left shows the view after running ROC pro with no additional user input.
Lower right shows the view after running ROC pro but manually adding 7 red and subtracting 3 blue plus changing the default “digital” to “film”. This view looks a little purple-skied next to the other ROC pro view but the people look most lifelike in stand-alone mode.