I'm scanning negative films, and using the great XnView Classic to set better colors. Scanned negatives usually have borders that cover a larger picture taken on the negative film (see picture below, outlined in green you can see the whole picture, though there would have been better examples I confess! ).
As I don't want to lose a single bit of the pictures taken, I wish to include those white parts on the final savec picture.
Problem: those large white borders mess with the Automatic Levels command, the result is really better... Without them ! So I would like to apply the automatic correction based on the central image (without the white parts), to the WHOLE picture.
In order to do so, would it be possible to know, in a way or another, the settings (color balance, brightness or whatever) applied by the Automatic Levels command, so I can re-create the ones made on the small picture without borders, to the larger one with white borders?
(it would also allow me to use the same setting to other pictures on the same negative film, because usually the same corrections work fine).
I suppose it might not be so easy to "translate" the automatic levels modifications to user-based commands...
Anyway, just an idea
Cheers
Simon
