Glass Negatives

[Fritz]

Does anyone know how to take glass negatives and reverse them to get the picture?

 

Fritz

[Mr.Jerry]

I do

[Mr.Jerry]

scanner w/ back light

or light table (opaque plexiglas over light)

then Photoshop "Image adjustment > Invert"

[Fritz]

Thanks Jer!!

[Blacksmith]

I have a lower-tech version - for those without a scanner - that works pretty well.

 

Its effectively substituting a piece of blank printing paper and a light source for the scanner.

 

Put the blank white paper on the back of the negative, and place the light source behind it. The sheet of paper acts as a diffuser.

 

Then, using your smart phone or digital camera, take a photo of the negative.

 

Then, as Jerry prescribes, use Photoshop (or equivalent) to reverse the image.

 

You may want to make a crude light table - using a piece of glass out of a picture frame / plexiglass - if you are going to do a lot of them. I was only doing a few, so just held it up to the light on the vanity by hand. You can try different diffuser layers and materials if you are getting hot spots or halos from the light source.

[Fritz]

Ill have to get the photoshop app on my iPad , I picked up approx 180 glass negatives yesterday and Im fairly certain they are from the Mexican Border in 1916, some pretty cool pictures

 

Fritz

[Fritz]

Was able to do it , heres one of the pics. Thanks guys

 

Fritz