Color matching and prediction: color correction tool v1.3 released! — Page 19

NeverarGreat said:

DrDre said:

 The improvement is a good one :) The skin tones, hair, and shirt all look just right.

Yup, he nailed it. Best version of that shot I have yet seen. Something to strive for in my own project.

Another experiment matching a frame from the Temple of Doom bluray to a set of 70 mm fames posted in the http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Raiders-of-the-lost-ark-bluray-and-colour-timing-changes/ thread.

70 mm frames:

Bluray:

Bluray matched to 70 mm:

Blu-ray regraded from post 445 is better than the improved from post 449 on all three of my monitors.

-G

g-force said:

Blu-ray regraded from post 445 is better than the improved from post 449 

 I agree.

FrankT said:

Is there a possibility of this tool being able to export LUTs sometime soon?

 The LUTs are  still being tested. Once I get it working, it will be released.

For Star Wars, I like post 445 the best, but the new one isn't bad either.

For Temple of Doom, I wondered what it would look like if you made the area around the sprocket holes a white point and inside the mouth of the statue a black point for white balancing with Gimp, and this is how it looks:

http://i59.tinypic.com/16k2p3p.jpg

To me, 449 looks like he is wearing that makeup that girls put over their entire face (foundation) and 445 looks more natural. 

Does anyone know what that guy's real name is?  I tried to find it but couldn't.  He sure gets a lot of press around here for an uncredited actor.  :-)

DrDre said:

Bluray:

Bluray regraded:

 Here's an improvement of my latest regrade (imo):

 Another attempt, which I think is the best of both worlds:

Looks great to me!  I would not change it further.  Would love to see how this looks with the GOUT and SRV15 and applied to other screenshots also.

DrDre said:

DrDre said:

Bluray:

Bluray regraded:

 Here's an improvement of my latest regrade (imo):

 Another attempt, which I think is the best of both worlds:

Seriously? That's even worse!

-G

After looking at it with fresh eyes, I guess I still prefer "Bluray regraded".  The new one looks like he has a slight tan.

NeverarGreat said:

I say either of the last two are great. On my monitor, the skin tones are practically perfect, the hair is blonde/gray in keeping with his apparent age, the blue of the uniforms remains intact, and the hallway is ever so slightly green, which, as far as anyone can tell, is how it is supposed to look. Why does this last one look worse to you?

 Also, there are far less artifacts, the old one had green blotches in the face, blue on the helmet. The one thing I didn't like about the improved one, is that his face had less depth, which has been fixed in the latest regrade.

However, here's another interpretation with less of a tan, which probably is a little better:

I changed my mind. Post 462 is the best one. My previous favorite (the original Blu ray regrade) is too blue everywhere. Your most recent one, his face is getting to ashen.

Anyway, this is all very exciting Dre!

-G

Still a bit too tan.  I like the bluray regrade the best, but it needs some touch up.  Here is an attempt...

http://i58.tinypic.com/2uehdv5.png

thorr said:

Still a bit too tan.  I like the bluray regrade the best, but it needs some touch up.  Here is an attempt...

http://i58.tinypic.com/2uehdv5.png

 I agree with g-force that 662 still looks the best to me. There's still blue everywhere, that's easy to spot if you compare them directly.

Do you think the correction models saved in 1.2 will be able to be opened and saved as LUTs in 1.3 or will the corrections need to be repeated?

towne32 said:

Do you think the correction models saved in 1.2 will be able to be opened and saved as LUTs in 1.3 or will the corrections need to be repeated?

 In v1.3 you can import a previously built color correction model, that can then be exported as a LUT. The LUT's are beginning to make sense. Just one more test if they can be imported in other software, and then it will be release time.

Happy to test with a few software packages if you need. 

So no changes in the model building for 1.3?