Very Weird Color Issue: My grays are showing up as red in CS…

JG
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Joshua_Gray
Apr 22, 2004
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On any new picture I open or any new image I create the grays are showing up w/ a reddish tint to them. I cannot seem to get it corrected. When I save the file, the color is correct again. This is driving me crazy!!

System Details:
Photoshop CS
3.2 GHz Pentium 4
1 GB of RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 XT w/ 256MB of RAM
NEC Multisync FP2141SB Monitor

Any suggestions?
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Robert_Levine
Apr 22, 2004
That sounds like a video driver issue. Try turning hardware acceleration down to zero and see if that clears it up. If so, you need an updated driver.

Bob
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Joshua_Gray
Apr 22, 2004
That did not change anything. I have the newest drivers from ATI. It only does it in Photoshop, nothing else…
JG
Joshua_Gray
Apr 22, 2004
I have tried 3 different drivers and nothing has changed it…
RL
Robert_Levine
Apr 22, 2004
Try trashing your prefs. Details in the FAQs.

Bob
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Joshua_Gray
Apr 22, 2004
Still didn’t work. I currently have the "North American General Purpose Defaults" selected.

Man this sucks!
JG
Joshua_Gray
Apr 22, 2004
Figured it out!! I reset the Adobe Gamma and now everything is functioning properly. Thanks for all your help Bob!
RL
Robert_Levine
Apr 22, 2004
I was going to suggest that but the fact that it went back to normal led me away from that.

Bob
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Joshua_Gray
Apr 22, 2004
Me too, but figured everything was worth trying at this stage. Weirder things have happened. 🙂
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Michael_Brando
May 8, 2004
Can you please tell me how you did this since I have the same issue. All my images are showing up with a reddish tint in CS but look normal when saving.
RK
Rob_Keijzer
May 8, 2004
Run Adobe Gamma from the Windows Control Panel. Have XP? then switch the CP to Classic View. Rob
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Michael_Brando
May 8, 2004
Um… I don’t have Adobe Gamma in my CP. I am looking at classic view. I also looked in Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop CS/ and the only exe’s I have are ImageReady and Photoshop. I did have both 7.0 and CS on the computer (XP) after the upgrade to CS, but I’ve since removed 7.0. Is this where Gamma went?
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Michael_Brando
May 8, 2004
Thanks for the info Rob, I re-installed CS and got my CP applet back (must have gotten removed with the de-install of 7). I ran the Gamma now everythings back to normal.

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