Very nice work, Frank. :) I hadn't thought of that, color correct a frame, then overlay it on an uncorrected frame, thus improving the colors, but retaining some of the desirable qualities of the unaltered frame.

The shot of Han at the top is an excellent example. By combining the two, you have greatly reduced the overly bright look of the first and also improved the colors, but at the same time you have not given Han that weird darkish orange/red look that is so hard to avoid in everyone's skin tones when trying to boost the saturation in the home video sources of the Star Wars trilogy, and which does not look good when it happens. Even though it might have made some areas a bit darker, that's a price well worth paying so the people look natural, which is far more noticeable.

You can see that oh so clearly on the first page of this thread. Luke's face looks like he was covered in red mud or something on the Blu-ray, looks terrible and unnatural and definitely very incorrect.

I wonder what your method would yield when applied as a color correction method to the best quality sources available, like darkjedi's 720p upscaled video, or negative1's 35mm film frames. Would be *great* to see what that would look like, it might give some pleasing qualities to the final result. Maybe some test samples can be shown by those involved. :)

Although, being that the 35mm frames need so much correction in the first place, I'm not sure if that would help in that case. But darkjedi's 720p video is the best video (non-film) source I know of, and this method should be applicable to it. And who knows, the end results might be nice.