yotsuya said:
Well, what I am aiming for is a global color correction for the Bluray and for whatever GOUT source I end up with. I want them to match overall. The things I am aiming for are skin tone, C-3PO, R2-D2, Darth Vader, the Blockade Runner interiors, the Death Star interiors. Leia is my typical target for skintone. Carrie Fisher has pale skin with some blush and when you have the tone right, her skin should look peachish and you should be able to see the blush without it being overly obvious. Considering the movie, in all four scans that I am referencing of it, is not properly timed from scene scene, you have to decide which scenes should be matched. I'm going for the majority. So I have gotten rid of the overly red flesh tones, but in the occasional shot the people are still a bit too red and in a few shots (mostly Tarkin) they are too pale.
My plan is to create my own despecialized version (hoping one of the newer resolution enhancers works well enough and easy enough) and individually color correct the scenes that I replace to match that scene. I have already done it to two scenes. C-3PO on the sand dunes in front of the skeleton has a green splotch under his arms that Harmy got rid of, but I had to match his color correction to what I am doing. Then I recolored the added Biggs scene because it was glaringly off. and I'm doing this on different layers so I have the entire film corrected and then what I change on top of that I can turn on or off as I like.
It is all a set of compromises. I want the films as they were shown, which at this stage is pretty much a guess. Only an original unfaded interpositive would give us the real colors as they were. The technicolor is the closest we can get, but it seems to come out too green unless you go in and color correct ever scene separately. Not a level of work I want to go to. I want to fix it so I can live with it.
I see, but in the case of the Tantive IV soldier there's only so much you can do manually. The skin still has an unnatural tone in your regrade, and there is a greenish hue to his helmet. This is impossible to get rid off mannualy, without introducing other color issues in the rest of the frame. So, it's not a matter of getting close to the prints, but getting close to your superior regrading of the laserdisc, which does not have the problems the bluray has for this shot. I'm saying you can get those good looking colors for the bluray, but not manually.
Here's a direct comparison between your two regrades, the first your latest regrade of the bluray, the second my attempt to match the bluray to your earlier regrade of the laserdisc:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146271