Oversaturation of a particular color. This often happens as a result of the type of lighting you encounter in the spaces you're photographing. Halogen lights will oversaturate yellow, while flourescent lighting often casts a green tinge on everything.

Some digital cameras will have a setting you can switch on to counteract these hues when you take the photo. XTRA TIP: Be careful with these settings while you're on site! Once I got home to find I'd shot dozens of photos that all had a heavy cyan cast to them because I'd accidentally left the 'counteract halogen yellow' setting on! It's hard to see this in the small screen on the camera...

NOTE that I always prefer an interior photo to have a 'warm' color tint (yellow, red or orange) over a 'cold' tint (blue, green or purple), but this is overkill and potentially distracting to a buyer.

Here I'll be using the 'Hue & Saturation' tool to desaturate the yellow.

Sometimes it's easy to miss a drop-down menu option (for ages I didn't know I could select a particular color)!

Often after I desaturate an overdominant color, I will reselect the 'Master' color channel and bump it back up a bit to boost colors overall and avoid a 'washed out' look.

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