Having seen the regrade in motion, I’m not satisfied with it. There are issues with the saturation, and the colors look washed out. As such, I decided to correct my regrade with Mike V’s well known Leia shot:
Mike V:
GOUT:
GOUT regraded:
Rather than post a bunch of images, I will go straight to video sample, as it always looks different in motion compared to stills. One thing I did notice, that with the Mike V correction we have the return of Luke’s blue lightsaber:
Also, in keeping with the hypothesis, that the GOUT correctly represents the color relations, the regrade is an almost exact match with MIke V’s color grade for one of the Mos Eisley shots again using a single LUT:
Mike V:
GOUT:
GOUT regarded:
To be continued…