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Originally Posted by tailwag
Are the colours displayed here purely artificial as produced by the software and display on the viewing device (computer screen), or are these colours true as occurs in reality?
I hope these questions make sense, I know what I mean but might not have asked very clearly 
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That's a very good question and different people will propably answer it slightly differently but in my case I try and match the colour to how I see the planet visually and/or how I have seen the planet as captured by spacecraft/largeer telescopes. Others actually do a colour match with a standard image (e.g. hubble or a spacecraft photo) or even let Photoshop decide for you.
As a comparison compare my image with this link of a photo taken by the Cassini probe
http://www.solarviews.com/browse/pia/PIA04866.jpg