Jaundice or neonatal jaundice is a medical term that describes an increasing amount of bilirubin in the body which makes the eyes, skin and whole body turning into yellow. Bilirubin is a yellow pigment in the body that release in the body after the birth of the baby. "Four out of five babies get jaundice". With approximately 8,000 babies born every day in Malaysia, 6,400 babies get jaundice. The proposed research includes a process for detection of jaundice based on the yellow skin colour. The detection will use the image processing technique of colour feature to extract and enhance the image to compare with the normal skin. It also classifies the level of the yellow colour using Color Detection Method which it classifies whether jaundice in a mild, severe or normal condition.