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Post #316504

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Knightmessenger
Parent topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
24-Apr-2008, 1:56 AM
Those screens look pretty amazing. However I think any correction from the 2004 colors will never look perfect because a lot of detail was lost in crushed blacks, detail that actually is on the Gout. The colors are accurate but I don't think it's possible for anyone to remove the digital shiny look that flattens everything out. It's like boosting the shadow on a digital photo that turned out too dark. Everything comes out brighter like it should be but the subtle different shades of dark grey areas are all the same. The 2004 versions just don't have the film texture and natural grain which the gout and other versions do.
It's not that I think you're doing a bad job or should stop, it looks like you have made an amazing improvement. I just wonder if LFL is actually going to do a release of the ot that is a competant transfer at all (for any version). If these projects along with the Close Encounters and Blade Runner sets don't embarass them into getting it in gear, I don't know what will.

I'm not sure if the starfield should be completely totally black as the bars. I don't know if this is true but wouldn't all the stars so far away that they aren't visible still contribute a tiny bit of light so that the black space is extremely, 99.9% to total black, dark grey.