I appreciate the feedback guys but I much prefer the colour and image dynamic of my own release compared to DrDre’s regraded screencaps here, the difference is night and day to me.
The biggest issue I have is that the fleshtone colours look very unnatural to me in all of DrDre’s screenshots, especially the screenshots where Indiana’s about to grab the idol and when he shoots the guy with the sword. Fleshtones are the most important thing in a regrade IMHO, those have to look right or you´ll end up taking people out of the film, because viewers spend most of the time watching the faces of the characters. Image dynamics are also an issue, they feel underexposed and there is still a blanket yellow tint that hasn’t been removed, making the sky look greenish blue. My release removes all the blanket yellow tint, bringing all the blues back into the colour palette of the film.
My previous releases were more conservative and I didn’t commit fully to removing the blanket yellow tint in its entirety, leaving some of the yellow blanket tint like DrDre did in his screencaps, but now I am able to be a lot more precise when it comes to removing all the blanket tint.
The problem is that you remove one blanket tint, only to introduce another. In this image I darkened all the areas in your regrade with blue or magenta in it:
I can understand that you have certain preferences for the skin tones (although in the Marcos Brody shot they do appear very bluish in your regrade), however I wouldn’t think at the expense of everything else getting unnatural color tones. Cooler tones are obviously fine, but is Indy’s bag of sand supposed to be magenta? Are Indy’s and Marcus’ shirts supposed to be magenta? Do the people of Cairo prefer their walls to be magenta? Do Arabic people wear magenta colored scarfs? I would expect both the walls in Cairo and the scarfs to be an (off-)white.
Perhaps my regrade is too warm for some of you, not dynamic enough, or you want to adjust the skin tones (the skin tones in the idol shot are not supposed to be natural by the way, as Indy’s face has been lit with a colored light). No problem, because it can be made cooler to bring out the blues, and the skin tones can be adjusted independently:
Marcus Brody’s jacket now has a nice deep blue color, the sky is a natural blue, the clouds are white, the colors are more dynamic, the walls and scarfs are an off-white, and there are no blanket-tints, yellow, magenta, or otherwise.
A direct comparison clearly shows how skewed the colors in your regrade are towards blue/magenta.
bluray vs DrDre v2:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/115578
kk650 vs DrDre v2:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/115579
DrDre v1 vs DrDre v2:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/115582
LUT for DrDre v2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8_LYKyZDiajVnc0Sk53RzZmNDQ/view?usp=sharing