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Post #944289

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poita
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Estimating the original colors of the original Star Wars trilogy
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Date created
20-May-2016, 6:42 PM

DrDre said:

poita said:

Agreed. Ben’s cloak doesn’t look right though.

I am so keen to try this out, can hardly wait.

Yes, Ben’s cloak tends to come out too green. There’s actually now an option in the algorithm, that should improve the results for such inherently unbalanced frames. It’s a bit technical , but it involves increasing the bin size of the color intensities that you assume should be balanced. After increasing the bin size Ben’s cloak looks better:

…and after a gamma correction:

It’s interesting to note that Obi-Wan’s cloak does appear much less reddish brown in production photos, than most home video releases would have us belief:

It also shows why production photos are close to useless, his cloak is completely different in those two shots, and every photo will look different, even when the same photo is in two different publications.

Now if someone had just held up a colour chart in a shot…