Please check out my old photo that I posted on Feb. 6th. of a lady in front of some railroad tracks and a pond behind her. This photo was taken in the late 1800 or early 1900. The actual really old looking picture is one muted blue color. It's a soft blue and has no other color in it. I can't see anything else on this picture, but yet I've scanned it a few times and this yellow keeps coming into the scan. Maybe someone can tell me what is wrong with this picture and why it won't scan it's original color?
I suspect it's the scanner trying too hard to be helpful. It's probably decided it's a faded colour photo and decided to boost the saturation to the point where the colour detail is being corrupted.
Unfortunately, many home scanners have limited ability to switch off these 'helpful' features.
If it was me, as the image is single-tone, I'd try scanning it in black and white. This should give a reasonably accurate reproduction of the tonality of the image. If you want to restore the blue tone to the image, that would be easy to do in a photo editing package.
Here's a quick example of your photo converted to B&W and then toned (bear in mind that you'll get better quality if you scan in black and white originally, I'm working from the low-res 365 version, and I don't know exactly what colour of blue the original is, so this is really just an example of a route you could take):
Since it is an old photograph is it discolored any way that is visable to you? if it was not archived properly photos change color with age and maybe the scanner is picking that up.
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Unfortunately, many home scanners have limited ability to switch off these 'helpful' features.
If it was me, as the image is single-tone, I'd try scanning it in black and white. This should give a reasonably accurate reproduction of the tonality of the image. If you want to restore the blue tone to the image, that would be easy to do in a photo editing package.
Here's a quick example of your photo converted to B&W and then toned (bear in mind that you'll get better quality if you scan in black and white originally, I'm working from the low-res 365 version, and I don't know exactly what colour of blue the original is, so this is really just an example of a route you could take):