Your film scanner will make your b&w images postives as part of the
scanning process. Once you have the scans, and have repaired the
scratches, you create print files (300dpi x size of print) and burn a
CD with the files on it. Then you go to the printer and get prints
from your prepared files.
I do that every year for my notecards, using Wally Wal*Mart for the
printing....
Also, for the b&ws you need to keep the files RGB when you work with
them and burn them to CD. Those machines don't understand grayscale.
I'm afraid that you're on an exciting learning curve here. There are
a lot of things you'll want to have control over to arrive at those
print files. I hope you have access to a Nikon film scanner with
Digital Ice. The Digital Ice will probably reduce your scratch
removal time by about 80%. I would pay someone to do the scans
before buying a good scanner and doing it myself in this situation.
If the camera store that processed the film has a pro scanning
service, I would try to insist that they do the scanning at no cost
as part of the compensation for messing up the processing job.
Also, I feel for the husband. He must be terribly embarassed and
wondering whether he did the right thing marrying this woman.
--
Emily L. Ferguson
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508-563-6822
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