Why does my phone camera make pictures look purple?

It’s actually a scale of blue. Camera phones are crap to say it straight forward, especially in dimlight settings. It doesn’t have great iso reads. It doesn’t have great much of anything. It might be ok for a detail shot, like 5 inches away from the subject.

Ha, Ha, mine makes everything look yellow. Weird, huh?

@whitetigress Maybe this is a better example of what I’m talking about. There’s a fine amount of light and everything, and yet my black shirt clearly looks blue or purple here. It does this with my hair, anything black, and a number of other things. I know phone cameras aren’t the best quality, but I’ve never had this problem even with older phones, and everyone else thinks it’s strange too.

The Samsung Intensity II apparently comes with five white balance presets, six color effects, and three quality settings.

Here’s some information on white balancing and here’s a little bit more. I don’t really know anything about this phone, but I would experiment with the white balancing presets and color effects under different lighting conditions and see how those work. Taking a picture of a Christmas tree can be a little tricky.

From what I’ve noticed with cameras in genenral, blue/purple colors tend to happen under fluorescent lights. The fluorescent setting on my camera adds a yellowish tone to the pictures to balance that out. Maybe search for a setting like that on your phone’s camera?

@Mariah I tried all of the other settings (sunny, cloudy, fluorescent, tungsten) and auto is still the best by far. I just can’t figure what’s off about it, since the auto setting is supposed to have the best white balance for each specific lighting/picture.

Cloudy setting should’ve done ze trick. It’s setting made to illuminate red spectrum and not blue

@whitetigress The cloudy setting on my phone ends up making the whole picture look yellow.

@mangeons Strange… Well I’m using my Optimus V by LG. On my White Balance options, Daylight and Cloudy turn low light indoor night time photos red,orange,yellow…(like the walls near the subject) My purple and blues are Incandescant and Auto (which is detected dimlights and brings out the blues)

If you have experimented with all the available settings and options on your phone’s camera, then you may have to just accept that that is what you are going to get. It is just a cell phone camera and that may be all you can get out of it; out of your particular phone’s camera.

@lillycoyote Yeah, I’ve pretty much come to terms with the fact that I’ll just have to keep it on the auto setting and get over the fact that it makes my pictures look weird. Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

@mangeons I’m sorry I don’t have any better ideas. I wish I did. Maybe someone else does, but I don’t. :-(

@lillycoyote No worries, it’s not your fault, obviously!