zombie: Thanks very much for posting all those screen shots; wow, what a difference it makes, it's like the theatrical colors are back like they should be (other than the skin being too red). :) Sure, it's not perfect, but it's so much closer than it was before any correction. :) Great work on finding this out. Maybe just ease up on the saturation a bit, and correct the skin tones as best as possible.

hairy_hen's idea sounds really good. Carefully manipulate the color saturation, hue, sharpness and so on in the GOUT DVD set, on a scene by scene basis when needed, using all available sources for comparison (the 1997 SE, photos, etc.), until the most ideal theatrically-accurate combination of color saturation, image detail and skin tone can be achieved. This will give very accurate image colors in the GOUT to work with when doing a restoration of the unaltered trilogy. :) If we can just get the skin tones more accurate, less red, while maintaining as much of the proper color saturation as possible, and while minimizing noise, it appears to already be closer to correct than we might have guessed could have been uncovered so quickly. :)

One can then also take those saturation and other values and apply them to the 2004 DVD set to get most accurate picture color possible in that set, if one wanted to use the 2004 DVD set as a source for scenes that do not have SE changes in them.

dark_jedi: Those screen shots look really nice. :) I can just imagine how great an unaltered Star Wars trilogy DVD set with your overall picture quality and with these color corrections from this thread (but more refined, perfected, better skin tones and so on) applied to the video will look. :)