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Post #1254123

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44rh1n
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kk650's Regraded Raiders of the Lost Ark (blanket yellow tint removed from blu-ray) (Released)
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4-Nov-2018, 3:53 PM

kk650, I’m convinced that you don’t use scopes when creating your regrades… Or maybe you’re just using a monitor that isn’t color accurate? The last several regrades of yours that I’ve seen all have a crazy obvious magenta cast. It’s super distracting. Personally, I just don’t see how adding a bunch of magenta to an image makes it look better.

Instead of just adding magenta, it would be good to learn how to perform an actual color balance, using the parade scope as a mathematic reference. Here’s an example of a proper color balance with one of the frames you provided above, along with the parade for each version.

Blu-ray Untouched

kk650 Regrade

44rh1n True Color Balance

You can clearly see in the scopes that your regrade is pushing the red highlights too far, and the blue highlights WAY too far, thus producing an extreme magenta cast. In fact, your grade is so extreme that it’s actually clipping both chrominance and luminance detail (the blue highlights go past 1023 IRE). A more proper balance would be to place the highlights/midtones/shadows of the red/green/blue channels all in a similar spot on the parade (like I did with my true color balance).

Just thought I’d give you some friendly advice. 😃 This post is not meant to incite confrontation, I just wanted to show you, using the scopes, that you’re not actually “removing a blanket yellow tint” but are in fact just replacing it with a purple tint.