Here is a perfect example. The ships pictures on the market window has not yet been switched from the old style yet so you can perfectly see the difference between the two regarding color. This is from the same game client on the same monitor/graphics card and the difference is night and day. The market window pic is tiny but you can still easily see how the old colors are much brighter then the dull new colors

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O7trLH1dLBQ/T7wkOV5Hb7I/AAAAAAAADyE/AI-KBcWNpIM/s1300/Guardian.png

No, I can't actually because, as has been pointed out by others the preview window is very poorly lit.

if you can't see the difference in the red, then you need to get glasses

It looks like the light source is on the far side of the ship, so everything is darker. The color along the entire thing is darkened that way so you can't make a comparison of the red in the preview to that in the icon. But even if it was muted a bit, that may not be bad, can't say as the image you provided is useless for the purpose of making a color comparison.

Edit: If you have better images use those. Insulting someones eyesight because you posted a terrible picture doesn't make you right.

here are better examples

before
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/983/guardianbefore.png

after
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/4848/guardianafter.png

soon V3 will be complete and you will be able to pay for the colour you want!

I believe the colour sceams are now matching the manufacturer of the ship now.

Better images, thank you.

That said, if that is the same darker, more muted blood red that the retribution got, I like that color better than the candy red that the ship had before. And after having seen my retribution docked and in a system outside of a nebula where the colorization isn't altered, I view this as a good change. The Amarr and Minmatar nebulas make even good looking ships sometimes look terrible color wise IMHO.

The ship lighting on a lot of ships is far too dark. The Bhaalgorn in particular: could look epic but instead you can barely distinguish between the red and the gold/brown/blue.

Also, the sample image for all the Stealth bombers, save the Nemesis, differs from the ships actual appearance.

http://youtu.be/KBasn-hkt74

Pligrim is awesome. all news ships are, I should make a video of all new colors

preview Window is too dark, don't base what you think off of it.

I know you're all a bunch of forum alts but try undocking one before you complain. The preview window lacks decent lighting.

I know you're all a bunch of forum alts but try undocking one before you complain. The preview window lacks decent lighting.

I like the new amarr ship colours.

maybe you guys should stop playing on low graphics settings.

It started with the "improvement" of ship (shader) models in what was called the "premium client" back then. All T1 Caldari ships got the same boring blue, all Gallente ships got that TERRIBLE highly-toxic-waste-green, etc.. I still hate the Gallente T1 style.

Nice T2 hulls like the Phobos got their colors totally washed out (I really liked the "classic" pink!). Also the Ishkur, Ishtar, and so on.

Now it hit the nicest (IMO) of all T2 ship hulls, and it hit them badly: Paladin, Absolution, Retribution. Did I forget one of those lovely ships patterned in gold and blood? Now the blood has dried, and it stinks :-(.

Edit: I totally forgot the Guardian, the Crusader and the Pilgrim, well and the Ark I think...

To make it worse, the nice Redeemer green is hardly a green anymore o.O.

Anybody else dislikes where this is going?

On the plus side, I really liked (and still like) the new Navy Geddon and Apocalypse painting. The new Damnation is also pretty awesome.

What happened to my Absolution?
It used to be shiny blood red with gold highlights now it's **** brown with gold highlights!
I look upon my Ark with trepidation...