Thanks for the pass over the image, that’s much improved. 😃 But I can see this shot is going to be one of those hard ones, that orangey carrot effect seen in the videos can be tough to get rid of. Might even need some kind of separate intra-frame correction that’s only applied to the skin, with all else in the frame getting a different set of correction values. Hmm, is there such a tool?
Skin tones also vary from person to person. It is nearly impossible to make every image match unless you know for certain that the makeup was applied identically to each person (as in the classic studio pictures). I’ve identified several very distinct skin tones in ANH. Leia, Luke & Han, Ben, the older Rebel soldier, and Tarkin to name a few. None of them match each other, but do tend to match the same character from different parts of the film (though lighting and exposure again change things considerably). Also, the degree of sun in Tunesia would naturally result in some redder skin tones in those scenes. I too wanted the perfect, even skin tones, but at a meeting a few weeks ago, I took note that the four people sitting across from me all had very different skin tones. And several were somewhat red, even under florescent lights in late fall - long after our sunny summer.
There are two choices dealing with the skin tones in Star Wars. You can either accept that they are never going to be perfectly even (a product of natural uneven skin tones and the way the movies were shot) and find the best fit, or you can get in there and color correct every scene and make them match. I’m going with the former in my efforts. I’ve found that every one of the 6 movies has this issue and I think you check, most movies will, especially when shot in so many varied locations.