This article provides a review of the state of the art in watermarking techniques specifically designed for color images. It presents an overview of the color image watermarking methods and an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of several recent schemes. It also presents solutions and arguments supporting the idea that methods based on human visual sensitivity provide more robust watermarks than do other ones. Furthermore, this article treats the question of the evaluation of watermarking quality according to fidelity. Finally, based on this analysis, research directions in color image watermarking are suggested.