Let’s bring our white balance tool and select the white balance picker (press 'w' on your keyboard to access it quickly). But if you do have a color cast like I do, don’t worry, there is an easy fix, and it will work no matter what your current positive looks like. Depending on the film, the chemical process, and the scanning gear you are using, you might have a different color shift than blue or perhaps none at all. In both cases, my negative ends up with a noticeably strong blue color cast. If you are working with a software that doesn’t have levels, you can do exactly the same by inverting the RGB curve like so:Īs you can see, curves and levels can achieve the same result. To make it a positive, we want to invert that and indicate to Capture One that the black point has a value of 255 (white) and the white is 0 (black). In a negative picture, the black point is actually white and the white point is black. In Capture One, open your Levels tool (Window > Create Floating Tool > Levels). Turning a Negative Into a Positive Using Levels Be sure to try both Capture One and your current photo editing software of choice, and see for yourself what’s best for you. With that being said, the method shown in this article, and video above, can be used in any app that offers either a curves or levels tool.

Capture One has a powerful tethering tool that can apply a style to convert the negatives on the fly while digitizing them, thus saving a lot of time.Unlike Lightroom, Capture One has both curves and levels tools, avoiding to mix the color correction and the negative to positive conversion process.

Unlike Photoshop, Capture One works on the raw file created using the technique shown in my previous article, and thus leaving a bit more room for adjustments without losing quality.

The reasons why I prefer Phase One's raw converter software for this process are the following: As the title indicates, we are going to use Capture One to make our positive image come to life.

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