There's a chap back in the UK who knows diddly squat about image processing - he just gathers raw data and sends it over to a processing guru in the USA who spends hours (or days) in Photoshop to get the data processed into nice images.
He's now got a coffee-table book of images out, has appeared in UK national newspapers with the images (but somehow failed to mention the guy who does all the hard (real!) work processing his raw data) and has even won a Sony award for 'his' (ahem) images
I'd say "go for it" in your particular situation, particularly your colour blindness, but fairly credit the person who helped you out when you post your images, especially if you feel the need to have them published in a national newspaper
Competition entries might be tricky though, but that's another story
Regards,
Rob