Wow… well why I’m not necessarily sold that the TFA changes are “better” they are definitely very visible to me, even though they are much more subtle than say his Jedi regrade, he’s shifted all the reds in the skin tones towards orange/peach hues and it creates a very gentle orange push in the other shots as well.
To know whether or not Harrison’s face was really that red, we need to ask the most important question…
“What was his blood pressure during shooting?”
Because high blood pressure can give bright red hues to real people in real life. 😃
I find the fleshtones of the TFA regrade more pleasing to my eyes but I wouldn’t say they are ‘better’ because of course colour grading is completely subjective, everybody will have a different opinion on what looks ‘better’. I’ve had look at production stills of The Force Awakens and Harrison Ford’s face doesn’t look anywhere near as red as the blu-ray so I do personally believe that the filmmakers made a conscious decision to make the fleshtones on the TFA blu-ray more red to more closely match the IMHO reddish/sunburnt fleshtones of the other six Star Wars films on blu-ray.
With that in mind, the main aim of the TFA regrade really was to create a version of TFA that maintains fleshtone continuety with my other Star Wars regrades that corrected the overly reddish/sunburnt fleshtones on their respective blu-rays.