also, adjusted contrast slightly to overcome the eye searingly white of the stormtrooper armour in some scenes. this is not something I can cure becase the original capture was too bright but the contrast adjust seems to be okay. I've also made it a bit more blue in the RGB values.
this tweak has also toned down the vibrancy of the orange flight suits which I am happy about. I've always felt that in the SE's and the new DVD's that they are just toooooo orange, I never ever remember them being that bright and I think that is more a fault of the color correction done in the reissues.
I also see where I went wrong first time around. all of my color values were done to match the capture source. ie what you see in the original shots at the beginning of this thread is what the DE LD's were like. when I should have been more subjective in my color correction etc to better values. now leia's white costume actually is white rather than a more creamy white yellow.
the shots are laid out in sequential pairs. the top shot is the pre shot, basic brightness contrast and saturation adjustment + limitedsharpen via avisynth script, the bottom one has been further adjusted using saturation and RGB balancing + MSU smart sharpen to tighten up the image further.
shot 5 is also a bit of a treat for mebejedi fans as this is one of the frames he was kind enough to send me to fix my canyon problem. I have color corrected his frame + also sharpened it up but his base capture file is a lot better than what I am working with at present.
mebe, I can send you my settings that I have used if you're interested and wondering how I got from your original colour set to mine.
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for those interested, I seriously recommend getting a virtualdub filter called white balance. get to the site here
go to the hosted menu and it is on the list there.
tremendously useful.
it combines the donald graft brightness/contrast filter, his hue saturation intensity filter and a white balance filter into one. the white balance in particular is an invaluable tool and made my final product look a damn sight more balanced on its color values without tons of farting around.