The thing I keep coming up with when looking at correcting ANH is that you can’t go too bright. I feel strongly that some of the crushed blacks in the DVD/BR are supposed to be. That is why few of us remember seeing the garbage mattes or Darth Vader’s red eyes until we saw it on TV. Those things are artifacts of a presentation that is too bright. Funny how my attempts to color correct Star Wars are leading to me looking at other movies differently. I’m not just comparing it to on set photographs, but to other movies. I think that because ANH is filled with sand and artificial corridors (either in white or gray) we tend to think of it as a fairly low color movie, but R2, Threepio, the many lights, laser blasts, explosion, and light sabers, as well as some props and costumes, are actually quite colorful and a lot of times those colors are diminished too much, I think in reaction to the almost neon tone of the DVD/BR releases. I think doing a sample correction to compare it to a particular color reference is great, but those brightened versions are way too bright. I prefer the darker version done just with the algorithm.