Preserved Topic: Photoshop color changed for the worse

I just opened up Photoshop and the color is completely fucked. White is now lavendar and all the other colors have shifted accordingly (even Pantone colors). This isn't from anything I changed, in fact I don't even think the computer crashed. I tried messing around with the color profiles, but I don't really understand them so I don't know what to look for.

Anybody ever run into this before? (I'm on a Mac BTW)

-jiblet

I'm assuming you mean that your color is only screwed in PS. On mac...ok what version of PS are you using?

~fist eater of the stars~

PS 5.5, and yes, only in PS. Although interestingly enough the preview in the open dialog is still correct as was the display in ProJPEG when I saved. Here, examine this screenshot.

Sorry about the quality, I tried to make it reasonable size for you modem people. The screenshot looked extra funny when I had it open in PS because it doubled the error.

-jiblet

Well I never had 5.5, but I think you go under "file" and then into color settings and then rgb setup. Adobe rgb 1998 is usually a fair choice. Now for CMYK, well that all depends on what you print to. More than likely you'll choose your local printer's profile (I don't remember you being a print person anyway).

Did this help?

Once on an older machine I had to un-check "display using monitor profile" (found in the same RGB settings dialog Jeni mentioned).

Hmmm. What else. Gosh, if you didn't change anything and didn't crash to corrupt any files, that's a real head-scratcher.

Time to learn to color correct "by the numbers"?



Let us know of that helped.

One thing you could try as a last resort would be to go into the System Folder>Preferences> Adobe Photoshop 5 Paths
and drag it to the trash.

Make sure you have the Serial number handy for PS, and it would be a good idea to make a copy of this file to another folder
on your HD, before you trash it just in case you need to return it to the Prefs folder if it doesn't fix the problem.

Another thing I noticed in the SC, is that your scroller for the PS window has taken on the colour blue which I get sometimes too when
I have IE 5 opened. Maybe close down IE and see if anything changes, reboot.
Other things to try... Rebuild the Desktop and trash the Finder Prefs also may do the trick.

If this is a scanned image check this out http://www.macworld.com/1999/09/create/fraser.html
Open another image that isn't scanned to see if the colors are true.

cheers.


[This message has been edited by kromaZ (edited 11-06-2001).]

I tried to find this earlier but the site was down. http://www.creativepro.com:80/story/feature/9155.html?origin=story
Hope it helps.

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