Inadvertently cross processed Provia

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I took a bunch of film

in for processing forgetting I had a roll of Provia in there and

forgot to tell 'em to process it as slides (they usually notice if

there is anything other than Superia/Sensia, which is 99.9999% of what

they process because it is pretty much all that is available in

Taiwan). It went through standard print processing, with disastrous

results. I've tweaked and poked and prodded and Photoshopped for two

hours on what may be the only salvageable shot, which happens to

basically be a snapshot...the long and the short is that I think all

the shots are pretty much useless. This is the result of my prodding

and poking. I don't like it (probably because it is so far from what I

was going for), but someone said they LIKED it.....I'm looking for

other opinions. Did the rescue attempt sort of work?

was able to accomplish this in photoshop.

 

<p>what do your negs (slides) look like? if they have a full tonal range you can probably get <i>something</i> out of them.<div></div>

That's IT! That's VERY close to what I was looking for. How did you do the color changes? They do have full tonal range, so they MAY be salvageable.

My usually advice in these cases:find a new lab!

Wait. You gotta go for a ride on one of those iron eagles.

make the best of it. you have many options with PS.<div></div>

Alton, I used select > color range to isolate the murky brown-green which was the most unpleasant color. I used Color Balance to fix those tones, and then did some overall Color Balance for fine tuning (I now see that it's still on the green side).

 

To smooth out the shadow to mid gradation, I pumped up the mids in a Curves adjustment layer. This tends to cause unnatural hues so I set the blend mode to luminosity. I then applied wide radius Unsharp Mask to increase local contrast.

 

Post some other scans if you can-- I like the challenge of fixing things like this!

Very cool, going to go try it now, thank you! I think the black and white conversion also salvages it, and will salvage some others on that roll. It wasn't entirely the lab's fault, they don't know many films because there aren't that many films available in Taiwan. Taipei has ONE place where I have found non-Superia/Sensia Fuji film...I usually put the odd stuff in a ziploc bag and they send it off to Taipei for pocessing (I'm too far, 1.5-2 hours each way) or I'd use the Taipei labs myself. The good thing about this is I'm learning a LOT more about Photoshop :-).