Post #643951

Now that I'm not in a rush, I went back to correct the slight over-brightness, which didn't look so bad in the live action, but did show it's deficiency in the cartoon.

When working the live action shot, I used mostly the girl's hair and face for the color correction. This time I reduced the bright areas of her face (the 35mm target was a different shot) for a now subtly better correction (the background opened up a bit, too):

first correction
             low  gamma   high  midtone
RED         0        1.5    255           -5
GREEN     0        1.4    255           -5
BLUE        0        1.2    255           -5

correction tweaked
             low  gamma   high  midtone
RED         0        1.4    255            0
GREEN     0        1.3    255            0
BLUE        0        1.1    255            0

                              LUT capture                                           35mm-guided color correction tweak

And, when blindly applied to the cartoon, it now looks less washed out:

This demonstrates that maybe a single correction can be used as a general correction across a single reel and, perhaps, multiple reels.