adywan said:

A B C said:

... A work based on this shot would be awesome, and it looks really like another famous shot I have in high res from this sequence. These are for me the true colours:

I hate to tell you A B C but you've been thinking that these are the tru colours from a very faded/ desaturated photograph. Here is the original photograph taken from the behind the magic CDROM:

You hate to tell me ?... Well, you shouldn't! :)

I'm not upset when I'm wrong and I'm glad of your demonstration of authenticity here, notably when you have not the least obligation towards "us". However we'd agree the contrasts are very close between these shots, not as dark as on your reconstruction.

... I'll add here for myself that a shot coming from a commercial CD-Rom will surely have been "restored" by the staff, so not the most authentic reference. Same thing for the remixed musics from "Star Wars a Musical Journey", if you allow me to transpose the matter in the area I've been on this site for. I would definitely go for a middle way between these two shots in the end.

It's in your hands anyway, and I wish you all the courage you can get! I have no doubts the thousand words that have been spent here will be pointless to anyone who will witness your restoration.