I think this shot worked out pretty well. … I love the contrast of the deep black of Vader’s cape, against the bright hall of the Tantive IV. Also, check out the lights on Vader’s belt…
GL is going to be so mad at you … undoing all his new, messy colorings. 😄
Three observations though. One is I still see some Blu-ray blueness trying to peek through, ever more as areas darken. Another is the deep darks have little breathing room and tend to blend together (like Vader and the Commander). And the last is that Star Wars was a Technicolor film with colors that should “pop” a bit more, which I can do with my “Technicolor-izer” (emphasizes the purer-primary colors). So I tried a manual color correction of that Blu-ray snapshot, aiming towards your auto-cc, with my 3 ideas incorporated.
What do you think of this (top is auto-cc, bottom is manual-cc w/3_ideas) . .
WARNING: This was worked up on an older LCD laptop. It appeared to change just by moving my head. 😃 Hopefully, your mileagemaywill vary from that.
I like your manual correction, but like towne23 said Leia’s hair is a bit much, and I’m actually quite fond of Vader’s deep black atire in my correction 😉. Also, keep in mind that most of these shots were actually matched to the colors of a Technicolor print, so aside from some slight corrections of color shifts, the colors should be pretty accurate in terms of their pop. The isue of the blueness in dark areas has been fixed. Thanks for pointing that out.