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[Seba]

All of a sudden the computer I got from my old work place that has Photoshop on it has suddenly changed its colour properties. By this I mean that the colour it displays on my monitor look very dull and liveless where as before it was vibarant. When I do a screen capture, and paste it into PS, the colours do not match and look absolutly pale (or sick).

I'm a very new player with Photoshop, even thou Ive been using it for a couple of years now. I am wondering if there are any users here that knows how to use PS, in which knows how to reset the settings - I can't for the moment find the Install discs I have for the program.

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[runeliger]

Is it a graying pale?

Check the canvas properties of Photoshop. It's possible you may have switched the color mode to grayscale.

If that's the case, try switching back to a 8 or 16 bit RGB scheme.

[visualkultura]

Seba said:

colour it displays on my monitor look very dull and liveless where as before it was vibarant ? when I do a screen capture, and paste it into PS, the colours do not match and look absolutly pale (or sick).

Hi Seba,
as Runeliger said, you firs must check your document color mode in:
Image > Mode
because when you have CMYK checked, but work with screen (RGB) graphics, colors look liveless.

But if you already checked your document color mode, and it's correct (RGB), maybe you have to change your color settings:
Edit > Color settings
here you can choose different color profiles for PS to use when working with CMYK, RGB or Grayscale. In RGB mode, a profile matching your monitor/display.

[visualkultura]

I forgot to say that your monitor/display should be adjusted properly, but if you only have this problem with PS, that's not the case.

Hope it helps.

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settings When working from Windows, I use Photoshop to do much of my graphical work. Gimp is also a great equivalent for those who prefer working from Linux (can be used in Windows as well). A typical problem people encounter when playing around with Photoshop is that of changing the default settings during experimentation and then forgetting what the baseline setting were. If you have been messing with Photoshop for long enough, you know exactly what I mean.

Well, the good news is that there is a simple fix that allows you to reset all of your Photoshop CS2 or Photoshop CS3 settings and preferences back to factory default.