When You have enabled glEnable(GL_COLOR_MATERIAL) and changed a color by glColor, then all your textures will be affected by this color. This is because by default the texture is displayed in modulate mode (glColor multiplied by texture colors).
If you don't have lighting enabled, to restore the original texture color is simple - just set glColor to white: glColor4f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0).
The problem comes, when you have lighting enabled on your texture. Then, setting the color to white or changing texture mode to REPLACE doesn't help at all - your lighting effects will be removed! (which nobody seems to be noticing!) The reason for this is because with enabling GL_COLOR_MATERIAL by default you're getting behaviour, where glColor commands changes both Ambient and Diffuse colours at the same time - thus your ambient and diffuse material properties will be affected (lost). So all you have to do, to restore the material state (and thus lighting effects), which you had before applying glEnable(GL_COLOR_MATERIAL), is the following:
glDisable(GL_COLOR_MATERIAL); //disable color influence
GLfloat ambient[] = { 0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f, 1.0f }; //default material has this ambient color!
GLfloat diffuse[] = { 0.8f ,0.8f ,0.8f, 1.0f }; //default material has this diffuse color!
glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_AMBIENT, ambient); //restore default material ambient color
glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_AMBIENT, diffuse); //restore default material diffuse color
Please note, what are the default ambient and diffuse colors for default material! There is no pure white there!
This way, all the textures, that you use from this point will be drawn as intended (with the correct color and lighting effects).
Took me some time to find this stuff, so I suppose it's nice to mention it here.
