- 1). Turn on your home computer and dedicated film scanner. Prepare your slides for scanning by carefully cleaning them with an anti-static cloth. This cloth will remove the dust on the slide and help prevent any dust from collecting on the slide during the scanning process.
- 2). Place the slides into the scanner's carrier tray. Insert the tray into the scanner and commence the scan by pressing "Start." Save the scanned 35mm slides to a folder.
- 3). Open the file for the faded 35mm slide in the digital editing program of your choice. Adobe's Photoshop is a powerful program that will handle this job, and there are open source versions from GIMP and Paint.Net that will also work.
- 4). Press and hold "Ctrl" and "L" to bring up the sliders to fix "Levels," and "Ctrl" and numbers 2 to 6 for the different channels in "Curves." If your slide has not faded too much you may be able to achieve a good final version with these steps.
- 5). Use the "Magic Wand" selector tool from the left margin to select portions of the scanned image, and work on selected portions of the image one at a time to bring the quality back to each portion of the picture. This may take some time, but once done you will have a copy of the slide that will not fade.
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