Useable picture from color Kodak negatives??

Anyone have any experience creating a useable photo from a color negative? The Film is Kodak 200. I've downloaded a few different curves for inverting the film - but none produce anything useable so far. Suggestions?

many thanx,
n8

The best way to do this is to use a scanner equiped with a transparency attachment (like the epson perfection 2450 Photo). The transparency attachment is a special ligth installed in the scanner cover made to scan transparency and negative (the scanner software handle inversion itself)...

if you dont have a transparency attachment, than take a look at this, its a little old but still work fine...

http://www.arraich.com/ps_tips_c1.htm

Isnt there something you can do with a white piece of paper if you dont have the attachment? I think I remember reading something long ago about putting the negative in front of white paper. Not sure though =\

On most scanners, the bottom of the lid is white, so putting a white sheet of paper shouldn't really affect anything if that's the case.

I tried scanning negatives with my own scanner once (Kodak Tri-X 400 B&W), but the result was that it was all black and I wasn't able to extract anything from it. I'm guessing you would need that light attachment to alter the light coming thru and hitting the film or a really good scanner so that it returns a usable result.

Thank you for the quick replys. I was able to take my negs up to our scanning office and scan them on a Nexscan setup to do transparencies. I had tried doing them on my desktop scanner with just a bright white paper behind the negs - but apparently it needs to be a reflective surface.

thanks again,
n8