User guide

Flat-field correction reduces uneven brightness and color caused by the light and lens. It uses a uniform reference photographed without film and is separate from white balance and lens distortion correction.

Calibrate your capture setup with a transmission chart and save the result as a CCM profile. This corrects color differences introduced by the camera and light; it is not a film look or the in-roll Color Chart method.

Use a lens profile or manual settings to correct distorted lines, then crop any empty edges left by the correction.

Choose which parts of a negative the app should analyze. Keep perforations, the light source, and damaged edges out so they do not affect conversion. Use Crop separately for final framing.

Film density describes how much light the film blocks. dmin and dmax mark its low and high ends; the characteristic curve describes how density changes with exposure.

Roll-based methods are the usual choice for color-negative conversion. Here is how to choose between them and why independent per-frame fitting is not recommended for routine use.

A chart photographed on the film can help guide conversion of the roll. Mark the chart frame, then check that the patches are correctly identified.

Adjust tone, white balance, and curves for the current photograph. If the same cast affects the whole roll, check input and conversion settings first.

Remove unwanted borders, set the aspect ratio, and straighten the image. This crop is used for preview and export.

Copy settings from one photograph to others. Paste only the groups you need, such as white balance, without replacing individual exposure edits or crops.

View sets how the image is rendered for viewing. A LUT can further change color and tone, but must match the data it receives.

Choose the photographs to export, set the format, color space, and size, then save them to a folder.

HDR can show brighter highlights than ordinary SDR. It requires support from the image, display, system, and viewing app.

Reversal film is already positive and does not need negative conversion. Use a Reversal project, check input and calibration, then adjust exposure, white balance, and framing.

Invert black-and-white negatives in a B&W project, then adjust grayscale and framing. There is no need to demask them as color film and remove saturation afterward.

You can keep film borders and perforations in the finished image while excluding holes from negative analysis. This page covers identification and sampling.

Light Table offers single-image and multi-image viewing. Zoom in to inspect detail or arrange photographs side by side.

Watch the folder used by your capture software and add new photographs to the project automatically.

Photograph the same film frame separately under red, green, and blue light, then combine the records into one image. The diagrams and examples below explain how this differs from a single capture.

Capture each frame in red, green, blue order. Keep the camera settings and each light’s intensity fixed across the roll, then check the file order.

Combine each set of R, G, B sources into one frame. Choose the film and sensor types before importing, then check the count, channel order, and alignment.

Make a Trichrome CCM from three chart images captured with the same setup and lights as the film. Single-shot, Bayer three-shot, and Monochrome three-shot inputs use different profiles.

Compare three capture methods using the black-cow photograph. First look at the change in illumination spectrum, then at the change to three separate exposures.

Save your edits, back up originals, and view or change the cache location. Sources, projects, and exported photographs serve different purposes and should be kept separately.

This is an optional advanced setting, not a prerequisite for using the app. Usually, leave Automatic selected. Use this chapter when you have a suitable custom input ICC or need to check how an RGB file was prepared.

When something goes wrong, read the current status and complete error message before changing settings. Start with the common cases below.