2 Responses to “How Do I Get The Different Color Modes To Work On My Canon Powershot A590 Is?”

1. SilentJa says:

   February 1, 2010 at 10:14 am

   I’m guessing you have the dial set to one of the scene/auto/easy modes, which won’t let you change the colour setting. You can only do that in the manual modes. Just turn the dial to “P”, and experiment away!
2. selina_5 says:

   February 1, 2010 at 1:59 pm

   Try reading the manual.
   About the color accent option: it seems to be a current fad that people are getting excited about.
   The camera keeps one color and turns everything else black and white.
   I would never use such a feature for the following reasons:
   • You are very limited in what you can do.
   • The function isn’t always reliable or accurate. The camera’s idea of “red” might be different to yours. It will often include/exclude areas that don’t want to be included/excluded.
   • Imagine if you just happened to take your best photo ever, but instead of having a real color photo, you only have some partial b&w thing that might look totally awful. You’d kick yourself.
   • If you do the “Selective or Partial Desaturation” (as it is called correctly) in post processing, you have much more control over it, and will get a way better result. Plus you can keep your original color version, too.
   This also applies to any color effects done in camera like b&w or sepia – you’re better off NOT to.
   If you don’t have your own image editor, you can go to http://www.picnik.com and use their effects menu which makes it very easy.