Nick66 said:
Add me as another vote for the desaturated version.
A request...any chance that you can include screenshots from the EE DVD and TE BD to compare against the existing EE BD and your regraded version? Since the idea is presumably to bring this fine film in its extended edition as close as possible to the colours in its theatrical, green-tintless counterpart as possible, I'd think that comparisons to the EE DVD and TE BD might be useful. Just a thought.
Hmm, I don't think there's much point. Trust me when I say that the image dynamics very closely match for most of the scenes. In terms of colour though, this 4k remaster is a totally different animal to the theatrical blu-ray, most scenes have been regraded very differently by Peter Jackson and Andrew Lesnie.
I have simply removed the blanket green tint and corrected the messed up image dynamics of the official blu-ray, not tried to recreate the colour grading of the theatrical blu-ray. Doing that would require a shot by shot regrade that I simply don't have the time to do.