{"id":11339,"date":"2026-01-16T11:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/?p=11339"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:30:33","slug":"scanning-film-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/01\/16\/11339\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning Film Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got back into film around two years ago and I&#8217;m still learning a lot. One of the things I really wanted to do was scan my own negatives. This gives me more control over my images and it&#8217;s cheaper in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>So I ended up making this tutorial for myself a while back to help me remember the steps of the process. In this tutorial I used an old photo of my mum from the 70s at her university graduation. It was a good negative to test because: at the time I was waiting for my lab to finish developing my first roll of my own film, I wanted to try processing a negative to make sure I could do it myself (and if I couldn&#8217;t, I&#8217;d ask my lab to continue doing it for me), I have prints from these negatives that I can compare with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using Photoshop CS5 for this tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got back into film around two years ago and I&#8217;m still learning a lot. One of the things I really wanted to do was scan my own negatives. This gives me more control over my images and it&#8217;s cheaper in the long run. So I ended up making this tutorial for myself a while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,2023,1261],"tags":[2266,2267,1061,1992,1993,2265,2268,2024,2264,2269,266],"class_list":["post-11339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-photography","category-ask","tag-35mm","tag-35mm-film","tag-film","tag-guide","tag-how-to","tag-negatives","tag-photo-negatives","tag-photography","tag-processing","tag-scanning","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11341,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions\/11341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}