OMEN!-_-! said:
You_Too, nice grading here! This latest change is a great improvement imho. I think you're pretty close here, whites look fairly accurate but the flesh tones are still a little too orange, at least on my monitor. Star Wars looks the best with these settings but ESB suffers more. Vader's lightsaber shot in ESB looks a little too orangy red to me so i'm sure reducing the yellow and red slightly should help all three films imho. Apart from that single change, you're pretty much spot on colour grading from where i'm standing. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the feedback, I at least won't reduce any red and yellow using curves, because I've found a very nice balance and the greyscale all over the movies seems pretty accurate when point sampling in photoshop, RGB being very close to each other most of the time.
Also with the lightsaber, don't trust your eyes too much. I analyzed the color in that shot and it's red with just as much green as blue in it, so it is not orange-tinted at all, but a clean red.
Always remember I'm point/average sampling the screenshots a lot in photoshop to make sure the greyscale is balanced, since it's the most important thing for the colors to look correct.
The skin tones being slightly "orange-ish" in SW is simply because first of all, like I said before the reds blend together with other colors and when trying to find balance, some elements in some shots will suffer slightly while some won't.
I've also seen some screenshots from theatrical prints where the skin looked orange too, so the source print for the GOUT might even have been like that. And remember that the skin colors are very pink in the raw GOUT, so a slight shift towards orange was necessary in some scenes. You see it even more since SW needed more saturation than the other movies as well, to be able to squeeze more detail out of the least saturated colors.
Either way, I found a good balance and I'll probably stick with it, unless I get some very technical proof which convinces me to think again. :)
frank678 said:
It's o.k. I can see the difference now- in the sky behind the landspeeder being stopped by stormtroopers in Mos Eisley.
My preference is still for the previous setting - I prefer the old lighter blue sky to the new darker blue sky
I understand, everyone has their preferences, but I'll probably stick with the current settings since the greyscale at least seems to show I've found a good balance, and it doesn't look cyan-tinted anymore.
EDIT: And here comes a little test clip!
http://www.multiupload.com/HJCE5C19AK
I also want to add to what I said before that I have a monitor which I calibrated with a colorimeter, which is should I say almost a must when working with color correction. This might also be why you guys think I should add blue, or remove yellow, or remove red etc. You might not even see the same colors I see!
Before I settle for some final settings I will probably watch the movies sometime on my TV which is even more accurately calibrated, to make sure it looks good and balanced.
EDIT: And another addition! A couple before/after shots from the scenes in that clip:
