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Post #929631

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DrDre
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Estimating the original colors of the original Star Wars trilogy
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Date created
15-Apr-2016, 2:24 AM

darthrush said:

Ugh these colors are just gorgeous. They honestly are my favorite color palette done so far. Harmys 2.5 is too yellow and I thought 2.7 fixed everything but for some reason the colors here are better looking to my eyes. Do you know if there’s any color differences between like those tatooine shots versus 2.7 colors?

The yellow color in Harmy’s 2.5 is probably the result of using the Technicolor print scans that have been our main reference for the color of these shots. I’ve suspected for a while that those colors were not accurate, and I think these results confirm those suspicions. The reason I’m so sure is that I calibrated the model on the Tantive IV scenes only, and these colors came out naturally when I corrected the rest of the reel. So, I believe these colors are far more representative of what people saw, when they went to see Star Wars in theatres in 1977. I think towne32 was able to undo most of the color issues of 2.5 for 2.7, so it should be closer at least. It would be nice to do a gallery of comparisons at some point.