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Photoshop Color Problem


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Hello,
Was wondering if anybody could help with this. My color's are displaying really weird. My black looks more like a dark blue/green and my gradients...well eh... I've tried a reset of photoshop preferences. Didn't work. I'm including a screenshot with the color picker open. The image in the back is supposed to be a radial, black/gray gradient. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help.

Ryan

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the image is a radial black/gray gradient


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oh i see the green now. oops my bad
 
have you accidentally changed the windows colour scheme you do not say what version of windows your running if it is xp then check you have not adjusted it to 8 bit /16 bit put it on the highest your graphics card can take shoul;d be 32 but true colour
if you are in windows vista/ 7 right hand click on your desktop click >personalise bottom left of the window you should see a display link click that in the new window you should see an option to calibrate colour
 
Steve: Just looked for a driver update, but it looks like I have the most current version installed.

Hoogleman: I just checked. I'm at 32-bit. I'm running on Windows XP Home Edition.

I'm fairly sure it's something in Photoshop. Colors display fine with other programs and in "Preview" when I view images. Any other ideas? I might be leaning towards a fresh install...
 
Black is black in the Gradient editor but not in the color picker.
Go to Preferences Ctrl+K and in Performance turn off OpenGL Drowing, uncheck it.

I'm not sure how that could affect if but it is a Video related setting.
 
Steve: It's already unchecked. In fact, it's grayed out, to where I couldn't even check it if I wanted to. The thing that is confusing me is, I've been running Photoshop on this computer for the last two years with no similar problems. It just popped up yesterday (06.29.11) out of nowhere.
 
check these settings these are my prefered 1s edit> preferences> general
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if that does not help then I suggest doing a reset on photoshop settings
shift + alt + control as you click the icon to load up photoshop
 
Ok, I just got done reinstalling Photoshop CS5 and reinstalling my video card drivers. Still having the same problems. I'm all out of ideas.

Hoogleman: I've already tried resetting the preferences. Still having the same issue.
 
Steve: I'm almost positive OpenGL has always been grayed out. I'm running two 256MB ATI Radeon X1300PRO cards. It's a pretty old system, but it's never given me problems before.
 
Recalibrate your monitor using Adobe Gamma (OS9) or the Displays Control in System Preferences (OSX). Photoshop uses your monitor profile to display your images other apps don't. Be sure you start the recalibration using a fresh monitor profile (sRGB or the profile that came with your monitor for example). If you try to recalibrate using the old corrupt profile you will still have a corrupt monitor profile and your color will still be bad. Also, if you are using OS 9 make sure you are using ColorSync 3.0.4. The 3.0.4 patch is available on the Apple web site.

See also support document 319456, "Colors Are Incorrect (For example White Appears Yellow)" at Colors Are Incorrect in Photoshop for Windows (for Example, White Appears Yellow). The document is for Windows, but it may be useful for Macintosh.

Here is another link to monitor calibration http://www.gballard.net/psd/colorlooksbad.htm

excerpt from Adobe.
 
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