One thing I want to do here is also to correct the overall gamma curve of the movie a bit.

Here's an example, a comparison of a scan from jedi1.net and a frame from GOUT with my latest settings:

The first thing you think when looking at Tarkin's face there, is that parts of his face are much more highlighted and defined in the 70mm scan. I wanna point out though, that I don't use those scans as a color reference since they're all faded in different ways and this one for example has too much cyan in the shadows.

Anyway, now I've applied a quick curve-fix for this. Top image: GOUT with my settings, bottom: added curve-fix.

Note that this is just an example though, and I tried to be a bit more subtle, like finding a middle between the scan's look and GOUT.

Now the problem this creates, is that some other scenes are suffering of white clipping and such. Here's that shot from Ben's hut again, with the same curve-fix applied:

Here's a picture showing what got clipped in that shot:

What I need to do now is to find a good balanced setting that improves that kind of definition and highlights but doesn't ruin the brighter shots.

I also want to ask you guys if you would think it's ok to sacrifice a little bit of the brightest whites if the result was more balance and definition in the rest of the image?