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Post #1038187

Author
DrDre
Parent topic
The theatrical colors of the Star Wars trilogy
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Date created
23-Jan-2017, 2:28 PM

^…^ said:

Some weeks ago, during my daily color grading homeworks 😄 I managed to try to mimic the color grading of poita’s scan; to achieve that, I took WOWOW (still using that for tests, because EP4 * should * have a little better color grading than BD) and RaiTre as color reference; mixed 40% WOWOW untouched and 60% WOWOW regraded, raised the saturation a bit, moved the hue torwards green, and that’s the result:

Comparison: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/198176

I call this 2017RG (regrade) just to remember; maybe Vader’s cape is too green now, but it reveals more details, crushed in the untouched version; still, a bit too green for my tastes, that’s why was put aside, but after reading the thread, I thought to post it nevertheless, to have some feedback.

I think it looks good. Maybe a bit too much saturation in the rebel trooper, and a bit dark, but otherwise I like it. This is how I would regrade the bluray for this shot with the current information: