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Post #1036465

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DrDre
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Neverar's A New Hope Technicolor Recreation (Final Version Released!)
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Date created
20-Jan-2017, 5:05 AM

Ronster said:

^ That is right Blue R2-D2 in the Escape pod I think.

This hallway shot It’s all just brightness and contrast issues particularly green contrast being too high not to mention like that technicolor print it’s had a MEGABOOSTER put on it with no Shadow what so ever.

I took a screen grab after looking at the brightness and contrast issues that were very clearly apparent in the old prints small blue push and really this all just boils down to contrast issues.

This is what I get when adjusting the contrast from Willarobs old screen print which has an acceptable Brightness and Value.

It’s a problem with Green contrast bleeding in to the image. The shot is meant to be a bit more Blue like this at the top end that is all to stop R2-D2 and Leia looking yellowish.

The focus of the shot should be what is lit and the new Versions of Star Wars do a pretty bad job of brightness and Value boosting the image beyond what it was ever intended to be. It’s really that simple. You need Shadows and lit focus and then you get the meaning of the shot composition rather than seeing everything there is to see and being boosted up ruining the light levels.

I’m not sure if you are aware of this, but the frame williarob posted, and which you appear to use, is from the 1997 SE, which does not have the strong green cast, that the 1977 prints have. They altered the color timing for the SE.