The data here are from three experiments investigating the effect of emotion on remembered visual salience, and how remembered salience contributes to subjective memory vividness judgments. Participants studied negative and neutral images presented in 12 levels of visual salience, which was controlled by changing luminance and color saturation in CIELab space. They were asked to reconstruct the visual salience of each image either immediately after viewing it (perceptual task) or in a delayed memory test (memory task). Response error (salience response - target salience level) was calculated for every trial and two measures were computed from these errors: 1. Salience bias, which is the mean error, and 2. Salience precision, which is the standard deviation (SD) of errors, so that more precise performance is reflected in a smaller SD (precision^-1 = SD). In Experiment 1, only salience perception and memory were measured. In Experiment 2, new items were added to the memory test and an additional measure of subjective vividness was collected at the beginning of each memory test trial. Here, participants only reconstructed the visual salience of an image if they recognized it. In Experiment 3, the task was the same as for Experiment 2 apart from now participants reconstructed the visual salience of every image, even those that they did not explicitly remember.