Enhance photo negatives

Hey folks,
I have physical negatives of pics taken from a camera almost 20+ years old.
I need to develop it and make a physical album from any store which does this.
Is there a way we can enhance the quality of pictures?
Let's say the old camera was 8MP and I need pics of much better quality when printed now

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M

Old camera that is 8MP... You just got me laughing when you said negatives there. A negative would be from a film camera. There are good applications for this though, but I'd recommend Photoshop/Lightroom if using Mac/Windows... You can also try using the 'GIMP', a free alternative, open source.... and it's always play around, most often you need to adjust contrast, colour balance some. Depends on what you are looking for.

Genelia · 36-40, F

@thewindupbirdchronicles oh okay. Sorry idk much about cameras and their types. Thanks for this

thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M

@Genelia The important part is play.... I just gave you some windows into tools.

Genelia · 36-40, F

@thewindupbirdchronicles yeah I'm not sure how it works but what I'm looking into is this. Let's say the camera had captured a face with some clarity, if we can enhance or improve it without adding any filters in the positive

thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M

@Genelia It's hard to bring something back into focus if the focus wasn't there in the first place. But you can either add sharpening (with Gimp, unsharp masking tool ... I think the name, god it's been so long, will sharpen everything, but you might also find softening (blur) does the same trick and has a softer touch. Without seeing the images, and of course, preference is to the eye of the beholder.... so these are just suggestions.