I consider this a personal project, as I’m certain a number of people on this website could handle it much better than I.
My goal is to color correct each film in the Star Wars Japanese Special Collection, using the usual resources as a reference, while applying only a single correction to each entire film. The JSC is unique in that it utilizes a source separate from that of the 1993 Definitive Edition/2006 GOUT (possibly from a 1st generation interpositive of the O-Neg?), and yields substantially different colors and idiosyncrasies as a result. I’d like to see what these differences look like with the appropriate color treatment applied on top of them.
So far, I’ve completed a first pass of Episode IV:
Original:
Regrade:
Any feedback/criticism would be appreciated.