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I noticed the aspect warriors of the Craftworld Eldar have their own unique color scheme. This is more a question on lore, but I do want to paint the classic color scheme mostly because I really like the colors they already have.

Do each Craftworld's color scheme only apply to vehicles, guardians, and wraith units? Or do they apply to aspect warriors as well?

For instance, would a Dire Avenger from Saim-Hann have red armour, or would they keep their blue armour?

My understanding is that non-vehicle aspect warriors are painted to reflect their shrine, not the craftworld. Note that there are variations of the paint schemes shown in old codices with names of different specific shrines for many of the aspects. So not all Avengers need to look identical, but they are bot supposed to match the local guardians.

Yeah, each aspect has a colour theme upon which each individual shrine will base its armour colours.

however, I have seen in recent photos that the GW studio ynnari army has its aspect warriors painted in an ynnari themed red/black scheme.

If you're ignoring the new weird Ynnari thing, then each Craftworld (powered planet-ship) is home to hundreds of Aspect shrines, each lorded over by an Exarch. Each Aspect shrine is likely to have its own colour scheme.

For the simplicity of the game, each Aspect has a normal colour range shown in the various books, but this is not a hard and fast rule. It's just easy when you say "Oh the orange dudes are the Fire Dragons and have meltaguns...", etc.

An Aspect shrine is definitely dedicated to the Craftworld it's on, but they will have their own armour and will not generally share the colour scheme of the Craftworld proper. I throw little things on my miniatures to show they are part of my Craftworld (a purple sash may be added to an Aspect warrior, for example).

Generally the actual Craftworld units, consisting of wraith constructs and militia (Guardians are Eldar militia) are: guardians, storm guardians, jetbike guardians, war walkers, vypers, support weapon platforms, grav tanks, wraithguard, wraithlords and I suppose wraithknights - and psykers normally wear the Craftworld colour scheme.

Outside of this you have Rangers which are wayward scouts on walkabout. They may or may not share the Craftworld scheme - so they can be painted in varying colours/patterns. An Eldar who's on the Ranger path may or may not return to the Craftworld - though they'll maintain a general allegiance to it. Same goes for Eldar pirates and Exodites -- none of which are dedicated to a Craftworld.

I've never seen or read evidence of Wave Serpents or transport craft being produced in shrine colours, so I believe they just make use of these when necessary - so your transports can generally stay with the Craftworld.

For my own Craftworlders I went off the beaten path by a distance. What I did stems from the fact that if you look closely, all the aspects have a "Guardian Plus Bits" look to me. So what I did is I painted all the Standard pieces - chest armor, undersuit, etc - in Craftworld colours. Then, with the specific pieces to the aspect - helmets, shoulder pads, weapons, shin plates for Dire Avengers - I went and added the Aspect's chosen colour. Here's a few examples of them..