Retain and render negative perforations

Before you start

Set the negative Calibration Area first, leaving perforations outside the box. This tool is for negatives, not reversal film.

Steps

1. Inspect automatic identification

   Expand Film Perforations. Perforations identified and Not sampled can coexist because identification and manual sampling are separate states.

   

2. Sample manually when needed

   Use the picker to enter the technical-linear transmittance view and sample inside an actual perforation. Its appearance differs from the finished rendering by design, not because the source was damaged. Enter confirms; Esc cancels.

   

3. Finish sampling and check the result

   After Enter, sampling should end and normal rendering return. Esc cancels a bad session; use Clear Samples to remove an already-confirmed bad sample before resampling. Toggle Illuminate perforations as needed and inspect borders/holes while checking the photograph itself was not biased. Use Apply to All only with matching capture conditions and inspect a target frame. Keep the intended holes in Crop while excluding them from Calibration Area.

   

   Pause switchingPerforations offPerforations on

   Switches every 2.8 seconds. The Contact Sheets are scrolled to different positions; find the road, park, and factory photographs shared by both and inspect their upper and lower holes. These are not pixel-aligned captures. The off image still shows Calibrating at the bottom; it illustrates the off appearance, not a completed analysis. In your project, wait for analysis to finish before judging photograph tone and color. Lighting the holes does not include them in the analysis area or repair a wrong selection. Pause, choose a state, or select an image to enlarge.