Nice comparison mockup (a few pages back), but to me those TIEs look washed out, like the film is old or something. Blue provides a better contrast with the brown asteroids and black background.
Here is a mockup I did, using the models from the XWA Upgrade project.
On the left is the gray "ANH" TIE fighter, the middle is the blue "ESB" TIE they did, and on the right is one where I just took the desaturated blue TIE and put a blue overlay on it.
Now what happens when I up the color saturation (in Photoshop) about 50%:
To adywan, they look bad in 1980 ESB, but I just can't see it... and they go by so quickly, I don't think the average viewer is going to notice the difference between the properly colored blue TIE and an improperly colored one. They certainly don't look as bad as what I did above on the right, in the actual movie. Once you remove the garbage mattes, people will think they look great... all you need to do is make the color uniform. I thought the brilliant blue TIEs in the Executor flyby scenes (CGI enhanced for the first SE iirc), look amazing.
I do agree though that the TIEs in 1980 are INCONSISTENT, in that from one shot to the next, they look more blue, or more blue-gray, and some of the TIEs in the same shot look slightly more blue than the others. If you made them all the same uniform blue color (allowing of course for changes in lighting and so forth), that'd be the real improvement.
Perhaps if Ady did a brief clip showing what he means by a "properly" colored TIE (that we could compare to the 1980 "improperly" colored version), that would clear up all this once and for all?
Luke couldn't have a red lightsaber?
;)
(and for reference, Vader isn't Green in the comic, nor does Leia have flaming red hair, but everyone has a red saber throughout the Marvel Comics run... they were recolored to match the movies in the 1990's Dark Horse remix, though. Also Yoda was blue in the ESB series, and Jabba, irrc, was pinkish, in the ROTJ series).
(Gotta love inaccurate teasers on Comic book covers!)
I'm just teasing about the red sabers, but I thought people might need a nostalgic reminder that they weren't always blue (or even yellow)!