How to Enable Color on a Webcam
- 1). Click "Start," "All Programs," then select your webcam from the list that appears.
- 2). Click "Settings." Depending on your webcam, this may be under the "Tools" or "Options" menu, or it may be on the main screen, usually using the image of some sort of gear or wrench.
- 3). Click "Enable Color" or unclick "Black and White." Again, this depends on your webcam. If there is no color or black and white option, you'll need to modify the saturation.
- 4). Change the saturation. Usually you can find your image saturation in the same place as your image brightness. If your saturation level is at "0," that means all of the color has been removed from the image. Enter in a higher saturation number (50 is usually the default),
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