^ The top is the adjusted version? There's another variable involved, not sure what it is, but the background in the top version is not as flat as the bottom BR shot. The top also has red bleeding farther out from the saber edge. The edge in the BR is fairly thin.

doubleofive wrote: Very interested in ESB, as it would be the only one not given the new core treatment.

ESB is a different beast, from the DIF experiments, some of the ESB sabers completely black out, they are exact, but generally there is an overall increase in brightness to them, but it's not as if the cores were drasticly modified as in the RotJ examples so far. A different technique may have been used where instead of adding a new elements they've just selected the saber and upp'd a value or two. What you've done with this SW shot is what I expect was done on the ESB. Probably the same technic on all movies, just need to establish a little clearer what that process could have been.

The SW ones implies that it was a change to the whole shot as the DS windows get affected, maybe the RotJ has some additional selection.

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Can try working backwards, starting with the DIFF and see if the highlight increase can be removed.

There's something up in ESB, the close up shots of Luke and Han on the tauntauns, somethings up with the skys.