Oh, the things I have discovered that I can do with my iPad and new HTC Sense with its cool digital camera. I have thousands of old slides and negatives that I have put off purchasing a slide/neg scanner for but now I do not have to! You can also use a light table but the iPad acts like one with a little app called Hello Photo which works quite well with my HTC cell phone camera.
This is a slide strip of my daughter Julie that is over 25 years old.
This is cropped, tweaked and enhanced. Not very good for making prints straight on but might make a nice transfer and other mixed media.
Since most of the negatives I have were large, I used my Light Tracer table for these. I grouped them together and took the photo with my phone camera.
This was a photo negative that I cropped out of the group.
This is what I got after inverting image in Photoshop:
Again, images are not crystal pristine but I am loving what you can create even with the negatives themselves!
In my very next post (maybe later today) I will show how and why I got involved in going through my stacks of slides in the first place.
Hint: It involves the murder of a family member and is a spooky read for this time of the year!
