Cyan Is Not a Country. Getting the color right.

Digital photography is great but it suffers from many of the same color problems and its film based ancestor.
Light sources have different color temperatures and cause inaccurate color in our photos. What colors? How do fix them?

Cyan, seen as blue-green in photos. Add red to fix the the print. Underwater photos and some artificial light sources cause this.

Magenta, looks reddish, pink in photos,. Add green to correct the print.

Yellow, looks yellow, makes sky look dull. Add blue to fix it.

Red, looks orange in print. Add cyan to correct it. Incandescent light is the usual culprit.

Green, looks green in print. Add magenta to fix it. Fluorescent light is the usual source.

Blue, looks purplish in print. Wrong settings on the camera can cause this. Underexposure in shade and snow pictures have this tone often too. Add yellow to fix it.

At MyNewsPhotos we manually color correct every image we print in the lab so you can skip this with all the photos to be added to your gallery and know that readers will still get great pictures.