I’ve tried my hand at correcting the Derann print preservation by althor1138. While a color correction was applied to the raw files, I feel skin tones tend to be too orange, and blues tend to be too green. I also think there are some issues with the saturation. I applied a general correction to the entire film.
Before:
Correction v4:
Previous versions:
Before:
Correction v1:
Correction v2:
Correction v3:
Tell me what you think…
in the second row of thumbnails, i don’t like what happens to Leia’s and Ben’s faces
in the second row of thumbnails, i don’t like what happens to Leia’s and Ben’s faces
I tend to disagree, as Leia’s face is much too pink/orange in the original version:
Whereas skin tones are a natural peachy color for the correction, while retaining the red lips:
I agree that the first one is a tad overblown, no question there, but your corrected faces look too gray - especially in comparison to the color in the rest of the frame. certainly flipping back and forth creates this impression, and perhaps incorrectly calls it to attention, but that’s my feedback and i am sticking with it.
Here’s an updated correction:
The correction was automatic based upon the white color inside the sprocket hole. If I had to do it again I’d definitely tone down the saturation a tad bit.
If you have the raw files I believe I posted the avisynth script along with my version so you could do this on the raw files and save yourself a generation of encoding degradation 😃.
Luke threw twice…maybe.
I agree that the first one is a tad overblown, no question there, but your corrected faces look too gray - especially in comparison to the color in the rest of the frame. certainly flipping back and forth creates this impression, and perhaps incorrectly calls it to attention, but that’s my feedback and i am sticking with it.
Well here’s what you get if you apply the original colors and the latest correction to the bluray:
Original:
Correction:
I think there’s no question the latter is more natural.
The correction was automatic based upon the white color inside the sprocket hole. If I had to do it again I’d definitely tone down the saturation a tad bit.
If you have the raw files I believe I posted the avisynth script along with my version so you could do this on the raw files and save yourself a generation of encoding degradation 😃.
Thanks for the info! 😃
Here’s another update to better preserve the highlights:
Here’s an update that includes more frames, and adjusts the skin tones slightly to accommodate dahmage’s comments:
Before:
Correction v4:
Here’s an album of roughly 80 color corrected frames at full resolution:
v4 is pretty nice