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Colour and clear presses can be okay but can also be worth a lot. The brown presses of Iron Maiden - Twilight Zone are worth 100 times as much as other versions.
Basic coloured pressings should be fine. If there's anything added beyond that then you may be able to hear sound degradation.
Picture discs are a printed picture encased in clear vinyl, so that's a compromise that will also impact on the sound.
I think I've still got some old singles (e.g. Gene Simmons, ELO) in coloured vinyl.
I don't buy vinyl nowadays, but multiple pressings in different colours seems to be a big thing for certain labels like Relapse and Nuclear Blast.
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Glow in the dark, picture disks and to some extent clear pressings are often still thought to sound worse however. I haven't noticed it myself with clear pressings though.
In terms of sound quality I find lots of other random factors seem to make a difference - like if you mistakenly buy a reissue that's really a wav of a cd pressed to vinyl