although i wish i had a better (dedicated) negative scanner, i'd say for what i have (35mm slides, flatbed scanner), i've done a pretty good job. i did a 3 pass sharpening workflow: initial sharpening at the original scanned size, sharpening for edge contrast after resizing, then another sharpening to bring out the grain and finer details.
for the selection of the uniform, i used a combination of mostly diagonal lasso at 1.5px feathering, and quick mask for smoothening out the edges.
will take a break from blogging for a bit to concentrate on finishing up these final images
