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Post #566315

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g-force
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Color correcting the 2011 OT Blu Rays (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
23-Feb-2012, 8:19 PM

Funcha said:

Finally got a chance to take a bit of a more detailed look at some scenes. Haven't rendered a final version yet. The blast flashes and explosions on the Blockade Runner look excellent. Love the saturated rich colors but not sure if they're maybe slightly too saturated. Flesh tones seem to shift slightly toward the sunburned in a few spots (blockade runner troopers). Not sure if that’s just something that would need to be tweaked by scene. The only other thing that seems to stick out to me is there appears to be ever so slight of a green tint to the movie now. Some shadow details appear to almost have a greenish cast, at least to my eyes and 3P0 at times almost appears to have a slightly greenish gold tint. Not sure if that was maybe your intent as I’m hearing supposedly some prints had this tint from others on this forum. Of course, this is very subjective so you may be seeing something entirely different. Thanks for your efforts!

Thanks for the feedback Funcha! I've had some time to work on this some more recently, and I am torn about the darks being green. It was originally a result of removing the overall magenta/violet tint, and I kinda like how it matches some 70mm prints, but maybe not a good representation of what the colors were intended to look like.

I'm also considering scaling back on the magenta-to-orange a bit, as some things that should be magenta are now just red. I hope to come to a compromise so that the blockade trooper explosions still look good though.

Could you give me a good example of the "sunburned" shift, so I know where to look to check that I don't go too far with anything?

-G