What's wrong with this picture

[mrrjm]

What's wrong here? The ornament is a deep purple. The is as close to purple as I can get. Tried all different white balance settings but this is as good as it gets. If I use a flash it's really blue. Not purple.

[SSonnentag]

It could be your monitor color settings. I have dual monitors (identical monitors purchased at the same time) and they look totally different from each other. I have adjusted the monitors to match as closely as possible, but they still don't match. For instance, your Christmas ball looks blue on my right monitor and purple on the left. Try printing the picture and see what your printer says the color is. :)

Shawn

[Tom V]

It looks purple to me.

I have a LaCie electron22blue monitor (20" viewable) that I calibrate with a LaCie Blue Eye color calibrator. Monitors' color can differ quite a bit, and LCD monitors can have color variations just by moving your point of view.

There are colors that the camera cannot duplicate. Like what? Neon Green, Neon Orange, etc., , artificially brightened white (fabric brighteners fluorese and look white to our eyes, but record on film as blue-white). There are a lot of colors on the "color wheel" that are impossible to record with just 3 color sensors.

Then, there are perhaps some colors that the camera can record that the monitor cannot show. There are colors you printer cannot print. Full-color CMYK offset printing uses color inks that are the opposite of the camera color sensors (Red Green Blue vs Cyan Magenta Yellow & Black). So sometimes it is amazing that anything comes out at all.

Calibrate everything as well as you can.

[jknights]

Purple for me too on a Relisys 17" TFT screen.

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year to you all.

[Chris G]

Looks nice and purple to me as well. Viewsonic P815 21" CRT. Elsa Gloria III (Quadro2 Pro).

[mrrjm]

Yeah--I agree with everyone. It looks purple on my monitor too. However you should see what it really looks like.