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Post #790503

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DrDre
Parent topic
Raiders of the Lost Ark - 35 mm regrade (a WIP)
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Date created
24-Sep-2015, 2:21 PM

NeverarGreat said:

These are great settings! Very filmic. The first comparison made me notice a potential issue with your settings that I have had to deal with when making a custom LUT for the Star Wars blu-ray.

In this shot you can see the that the darker areas of the (supposedly neutral) blackboard are indeed neutral, yet the areas where the light is striking it appear yellowish green. The 35mm frame perhaps goes too far, making the entire board blue, but in my opinion the regrade goes too far in the green direction. This was a big problem with Star Wars, and made things which were supposed to be white look green. A good way that I found of making things look filmic was to boost the blues in the highlights while reducing the blues in the shadows, though usually you will want to just aim for neutral highlights.

 I was still fiddling with the settings a bit. I've updated the above screenshots, so I guess the old ones were v1.4 beta. ;-)

I think this looks much better (as do the others):