Color

On-line yarn stores always caution that the actual color may vary depending on one's computer.  My non-technical understanding is that number of dots per inch (pixels?) affects color quality.  I know I've bought yarns that weren't the color I thought they were going to be. 

As I post my pieces on etsy.com, I have difficulty getting the color portrayed accurately.  I scanned a scarf so that I could import the image into Paint and use the color edit function to determine the red-green-blue values.  I think it does saturation levels as well.   I thought I could then use those values to hone the images before I upload them to etsy.  Only the photo editor I have doesn't use the same scale. 

I uploaded the scanned image to my etsy shop and removed the camera images I had.  Then I finally removed the scarf from the printer/scanner and found the scanned color is far too blue.  Lovely color, but not the correct color. 


I re-uploaded the camera images which are more accurate.  At least on my computer they're more accurate.  So I am very conscientious about describing the colors in the description of the item.  We each may have different perceptions of teal and fuchsia or the color of flax seeds, but that's the best I can do.  Maybe I should offer samples of the yarn for a small fee...