Does anyone have any ideas? When I open a file in Photoshop 7 with blue sky and blue water, it changes to purple sky and purple water. No there is nothing wrong with the monitor, I am running duel monitors that are calibrated just fine, the file opens fine in other programs, photo impressions, picture Project, image zone, etc. any file I open with Photoshop now, has a purple tint to it. This problem just started on this computer and I am running Photoshop 7 on two other computers and they work just fine. All of the color settings are set to their defaults, and I verified this by looking at the other Photoshop installations. I had recently installed the Microsoft color control panel Applet for Windows XP v 1.0, but I had also install this on the other computers without a problem. I uninstalled the applet anyways but it did not solve the problem. I had recently installed the P.I.M. (print image matching) plug-in for Photoshop and I was not sure if this was the problem, so I uninstalled that also and it did not solve the problem. If I go to the color settings and change: RGB from (sRGB IEC1966-2.1) to (monitor Samsung 21 Syncmaster), the color looks better but that would be treating the symptoms not solving the problem. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be appreciated Thanks Randy

sorry randy, i'm at a loss myself. i've been looking through all my resources and can't find an answer. i hate that!! i hope it's not a simple answer like turning off/on the CMS... i'll keep looking, :| retrocity

It may be something you already looked at, but is photoshop opening the images in a different colour format? Lou.

Is photoshop opening your images in a different colour format?... I had an output problem for a bit, and that gave me coulour-shifted prints. dunno if that helps any, but the output can be accessed by looking at print preview, and opening the subs. Hate stuff like that. Annoying as hell. Good luck with it, Lou.

One other thing.... you may have tried this... the old control alt shift, while opening photoshop.... will reset preferences... sometimes it'll fix the oddest things, too. Lou.

Thanks for help, yes I tried ctr/alt/shift, no good. I also tried a system restore and uninstall and reinstall of photoshop no luck! :(

I'm at a loss for a definitive answer, but two other things come to mind, (remote possiblilties, though), could the adobe gamma loader need to be tweaked?... also, you might check , under >view>proof setup, exactly what is set there. If I think of anything else, I'll post. Lou.

Thanks for your help, I went to: View > Proof setup, and the only thing checked is "Working CMYK" I also posted this question in the photography forum, there is a long list of other suggestions that were tried, they suggested that I post a picture, so here is one for the string also. Yes, the problem definitely is not with the monitors, I can drag Photoshop and the original file back and forth from monitor to monitor, and the problem stays with Photoshop. Thanks again to all that have helped so far. Randy

Also I went to the ICC (international color Consortium) web site and installed a new "sRGB_IEC61..." file, and that did not work either.

One thing for sure... this is SPECIFICALLY a photoshop problem... somewhere in it's interpretation of what it's supposed to output. The old rule of thumb... if nothing else produces that result, then it must be the one that does. whatever is doing this has to do with your IMMEDIATE output to your monitor... one other thought, is Windows managing colour? I've had problems with that, but usually for print output. Nice picture. Lou.

Had this problem about a year ago (aything blue was a weird purple!) - drove me nuts! Try this (since I read you're displaying "Working CMYK" - and monitors display RGB): View>Proof Setup>Custom -under Proof Conditions: Device to Simulate - choose your monitor (believe it or not, the model number/designation should be in the giant list of options in the pulldown menu). Hope that helps. Good luck- -Lew ;-)