Really? I think it is pretty obvious right away, but it may be my monitor’s brightness and colors making it that much more obvious. I know the noise kinda makes it look like there’s more detail but it’s not just the noise alone - still the wrinkles in the robes are much more prominent, better defined, not so much smoothed out (Qui-Gonn’s chest area, especially on the sides and all along where his arms meet the torso, the transition between them). You can see the wrinkles are better defined and I can see their full length while in the bottom picture they seem to have almost vanished into the same shade of the color of Qui-Gonn’s robe.
Don’t get me wrong, your preservation looks great. This is not a smartass picking on your work. It is just something that immediately caught my attention as I started watching the film and I was curious if any smoothing options settings could have made it less obvious. Either way, thanks for all the great work you do as you’re giving us hope of seeing the real TPM (theatrical cut and colors) again and in the best available way right now.