This photo has prompted some discussion on ICON. The photo on the left is the original photo.

The middle photo has had a single "Auto Contrast" PhotoShop operation applied to it. The documentation says

"The Auto Contrast command adjusts the overall contrast and mixture of colors in an image automatically. Because it does not adjust channels individually, Auto Contrast does not introduce or remove color casts. It maps the lightest and darkest pixels in the image to white and black, which makes highlights appear lighter and shadows appear darker."

The right photo has had a single "Auto Levels" PhotoShop operation applied to it. The documentation says

"The Auto Levels command moves the Levels sliders automatically to set highlights and shadows. It defines the lightest and darkest pixels in each color channel as white and black and then redistributes intermediate pixel values proportionately. Because Auto Levels adjusts each color channel individually, it may remove or introduce color casts."

"Auto Levels gives good results when an image with an average distribution of pixel values needs a simple contrast adjustment or when an image has an overall color cast."

So you be the judge... Did these operations take a bad photograph and make an image that is truer in color to the original insulator (which unfortunately we can't see) or did these operations alter the image such that it did not produce a color that is more like the original insulator.

My personal opinion is that trying these two adjustments just "brought out" the color already present in the original image, rather than tainting it and producing a color that was unrealistic (such as turning a Hemingray Blue color into Cobalt Blue). In the right photo, on the right front, you can see that the paper is pretty much white. To me, this says that much of the pink/tan cast in the original photo has been removed, and this is the resultant color.

But do NOT make a decision to purchase this insulator based on this presentation here.

As a disclaimer, I do not know the seller or any of the bidders, and I have no motivation other than to show how these PhotoShop commands can change (improve?) a bad image