I wasn’t planning on it originally, but I knew it would bother me if I didn’t, so I regraded the entirety of the Battle of Yavin sequence to drastically reduce the over-cyan tint on Despecialized. I love the tech colors, until they start to be distracting and take me out of the film, which those overemphasized cyans in the climax of the film definitely do. A few of these shots were regraded using videos posted by Mike Verta as reference, and surrounding footage was graded to match. Most of it is nothing crazy, just reducing the cyan color shift and making the image look more natural.
Cool. I considered doing similar but realized I could end up introducing more problems than I solved. So I went with using a lot of 97 ReSp shots which were a little more neutral, but not totally there. And then the most saturated were some of the ones taken care of by the SSE. But there’s definitely more that could be done, so I’ll be happy to see yours.
I wanted to try and accomplish the look I wanted purely through curves adjustments, but the grading on DeEd is just too extreme to get good results purely with that, so in the end I ended up using a combination of light curves adjustments along with saturation adjustments to certain color channels. I try not to mess around with saturation if I can avoid it, but in this instance it was the only way to get the look I wanted based partially on mvertas videos, but nonetheless I feel like I got some really pleasing results. I’ll see about posting some frames later.