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Post #548068

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You_Too
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Info: Digging up those blacks - using the STAR WARS Blu-ray for preservations
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24-Oct-2011, 4:01 PM

Ok, after a lot of analyzing and trying different settings for selective color and curves, I'm starting to agree with some of you guys that it looked just slightly too yellow overall. Even if that looks good, it's not correct so I thought I'd give it a more advanced approach.

I took lots of raw screenshots from the blu-ray and put them all beside each other in one big lossless image. After that I applied selective color with some small new tweaks, and then I went to curves and let photoshop automatically find the "perfect" RGB values to correct the curves, and I then modified them using my overall gamma adjustment curve. I also made it slightly brighter without clipping any significant detail.

I'll show you the new version here, in a comparison to the old. (Old on top)
I think the difference shows the most in shot 4.

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9099/test01t.th.pnghttp://img26.imageshack.us/img26/716/test02o.th.pnghttp://img714.imageshack.us/img714/2057/test03.th.png
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/1985/test04h.th.pnghttp://img840.imageshack.us/img840/4853/test05.th.png