The Force Awakens - "Tone" Regrade (* unfinished project? *)

There isn’t much wrong with the visuals of THE FORCE AWAKENS… except for the horrid color grade. While the colors pop and the lightsabres dazzle on the screen, Han Solo (and everyone else) appear to have some severe blood pressure issues, as seen here. Even the crawl is affected from this grade! For my “regrade”, I am going to fix that issue.

I am not looking to drastically regrade the entirety of the film, rather, I want to keep the style, but lessen its effects. For my first pass at altering the color grade, I’ve desaturated the film and adjusted the hue shift – pushing the skin tones from pink to more natural colors.

REGRADE vs BLU-RAY comparisons (first pass):
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/213061

I am aware that there is also a blanket tint across the image, but I do not plan to address that just yet.

==double post==

Abrams tends toward a more saturated look, and your approach is subtle but effective. I think you could go further in reducing the pink skin tones though. That’s one of the big issues that reminds me this is a recent film.

I went even further, desaturating a few points more, as well as shifting the hue. This time the Blu-ray is shown first, then my regrade…

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/213085