Ok, another little update on what I did today. Like you know if you've read the last couple pages of this thread, me and DJ decided to focus on only correcting color errors in the GOUT, instead of a full cleanup.
As some of you might know, there's been discussions before about Luke's lightsaber in the wide shot inside the Falcon right after Alderaan's explosion.
There's been a discussion over at Mike Verta's forum as well, where he stated that the lightsaber was in fact blue in the original. It was also proved by a screening photo he posted in some other thread around here sometime.
There are two of these wide shots, and while the lightsaber color is faded in both, in the second shot the whole tint of the picture is wrong. The second shot is purple/pink in its tint and blue colors are shifted to magenta.
We decided to fix both of those shots and I've finished the first one today.
With the GOUT being sourced from an interpositive that was quite faded when they scanned it, the lightsaber color in that shot was very faded, appearing as white in the raw GOUT, and as "dollar-green" when increasing the saturation.
I've fixed the lightsaber in the first shot, by handpainting it in two passes. The first pass being the color of the blade and the second pass being the hue of the glow around it. I chose the color by sampling Luke's lightsaber in the "It controls your actions?" shot. Most sources point against the saber in this wide shot being as saturated as in that other shot.
Here's a comparison of what it would've looked like in our release had I not done this, and how it looks now:
