First of all, my husband didn't think he would like these dishes when I first asked him which color we should buy. However, when the blue dishes first arrived, he loved them instantly! The blue is a nice deep denim shade.
The "Red" dishes are not actually the apple-red that they appear in the promo photos. They're more like a dark rusty red (someone more refined than myself would probably call it "blood orange"). That may sound like it wouldn't be attractive, but it really is gorgeous! When I tried to photograph the plates (the blue and red together) to show the true color, I noticed that they do photograph as apple red, no matter what I did with the camera settings.
We are VERY happy with the dishes we ordered from Great Offer Stock.com. The Elama downtown is a great set. I had a really tough time choosing between the red and the blue, but both are equally gorgeous in person.