doubleofive said:
adywan said:
How are you doing the colour correction Angel? It would be very handy for us editors if you could let us know how all these corrections are being done. :)
This is what I keep poking Angel to do. He shows all this incredible work, but we never know how he did it or if he would have to work 3 hours on each frame to get the desired effect. ;-)
How I would do it as a still image in Photoshop would be to first enhance the sharpness of the image (but not too much).
Then generate multiple duplicate layers (a layer for each different element you wanted to adjust) so you could adjust Yoda's head and gown, the mountain behind him, the trooper, the trooper's stripes, and various sky elements identified by the patterns in the cloud separately.
I'd then reintegrate the image and make final tweaks with colour and tone fields laid over blank layers and applying various blur techniques and adjust transparency to smooth the transition between adjusted elements.
With this result (which isn't as good but only took me about 2 hours) :
This could be done in motion by rotoscoping those elements and treating them in the same way but it would take forever.
It would be like hand tinting a monochrome film.
People have been doing that since the dawn of cinema but it's not an advisable method for one person unless you are a monk with a team of novices waiting to take over the task when you are reunited with the infinite.
If there is a batch process software solution I'd be as interested in it as I would be in a similar process for making anaglyphic 3D movies.
I'd be a bit worried if there was such a system. If machines could do that then none of us would be here, possibly.
