Photographing purple

[Former_Member]

I just received a bunch of purple glass . . . and it is awesome. But when I take a picture of it, in the image it looks blue if it is supposed to be dark purple, and it looks rose/pink if it is supposed to be lavender. I have a good camera and a good photoshop program. Most of my pictures are great. Any suggestions??

[Former_Member]

After you take the pictures can you adjust the warmth/coolness in Photoshop to accurately reflect the color? I'm no expert but that's what I'd usually do.

[Former_Member]

Yes, I was going to advise the same thing--adjusting the hue and saturation levels in Photo Shop. There is also an automatic color correction which may or may not help. I find it's best to experiment with the color hues yourself. These are all under the Enhance selection in the top tool bar of Photo Shop ( or PS Elements).

[Former_Member]

Hi Courtney, Hannah, and Connie. Thank you VERY much. The program I use (GIMP2) calls it hue and saturation. I just fooled around with it enough to know that it will do what I need it to.

[BeadJewelryByAnita]

I have the same problem with purple. Seems to be very difficult to photo this color accurately.