@yotsuya: I didn’t take your comments personally but I would suggest in future that you give your opinions in a less direct manner and to show a bit more humility and awareness that your opinion is just that, an opinion. Most important of all, try to remember to show respect for the work that goes into creating these releases, seven releases in this case that took me more than 4 years working on them on and off, even if you don’t particularly like the end result. This is something that I personally learnt helping out as a volunteer on film shoots in my younger years, a crazy amount of work goes into making films regardless of whether you personally consider it good or bad, so show respect for the work that went into making it even if you don’t respect the end result. The same applies for releases.
I think the end result of all seven is great, especially TFA that has been very popular and many agree with me. I have an opinion, the many people that agree with me have an opinion, you of course have your own different opinion. Your opinion has no more greater value than mine or those that agree with me that my Star Wars regrades are a big improvement on the blu-rays. Many would argue that my opinion has a great deal more weight than yours because I have almost 200 regraded releases available online to my name, but I don’t agree with that viewpoint because I believe that regrading, like art, is completely subjective and nobody is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, regardless of the difference in regrading experience.
I don’t know if english is not your native tongue or not, if its not that would give you a bit of an excuse, but you need to try to come across as less patronising. Comments like
‘You are far from the only one to take the skintones too far to the yellow. I’ve noticed it is a common problem. I did the same thing myself on my first few attemps at color correction.’
comes across as very arrogant and superior, like you have the divine right to declare what Star Wars should look like for everybody else because it is ‘your preference’ and you came to a definitive conclusion about how Star Wars should look based on your ‘first few attempts at color correction’. How many attempts do you think i’ve done colour correcting Star Wars over the last four years? Hundreds if not thousands. Do you see me placing my own opinion of what Star Wars should look like over others because of those four years experimenting with the colours of SW, TESB and ROTJ? No.
From where i’m standing, ‘your preference’ would be Star Wars with ugly reddish sunburnt fleshtones if you maintain the same saturation level or a very desaturated Star Wars, to get the reddish sunburnt fleshtones under control, that looks nothing like the Technicolor prints with punchy colours I have access to, both options would look very unappealing to me but I would never say that they looked just as unnatural as the blu-rays because that would be BS. We’re just going to have to agree to disagree about how Star Wars ‘should’ look.