To respond to all of you, I did realize the sharpening was a bit too much after taking a second look. I'd really love to pull some of those fine details out, but I'll just have to try another way.
Although one reason to not sharpen is probably the deleted scenes. If I sharpen the HD movie, the Upscaled sd deleted scenes would stand out. I've been working on a lot with new upscaling algorithms, and I'm getting to the point that it is unrecognizable from the HD, they blend in. Of course the fine grain helps too, so maybe absolutely no sharpening.
I see lots of people complaining about the color shift, and I think I can tone the saturation of it down to be more natural if I apply it to a separate layer and change the blending mode in AE. It is purposeful though since I want to add a little bit of imperfectness that the OT image had.
Also, borisanddoris the release is the full theatrical cuts plus the DVD deleted scenes, and I think maybe a couple usable BD deleted scenes like Anakin and Padme's Father (actually that might be the only usable one, I think).
In addition, I'd like to state I am also figuring out stuff with the audio. I am trying to emulate the Ot theatrical mixes closely with the sound of the audio. I'm testing out settings with multiband compressors, EQ's, pitch warping to make it sound like it was recorded longer ago (but not sacrificing any real quality.)
And yeah, I'd love to see that print. Would be a great reference for color since lots of PT stuff isn't in the OT. Can't afford $750+ right now since I just bought lot's of new software including Element 3D, which with some CGI models I can easily beat the quality of CGI in the prequels. (Just don't expecte me to just outright redo everything, even though I'd love too. haha) However I'm going about looking for external color reference sources. For example, Sound Of Music is a great color reference for what Naboo should look like.
And thanks, for the wonderful feedback. It really helps me to get the images just right.