Help! White colours look Grey, even #fffff looks grey.

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November 6, 2024
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Hi all, when I'm openining a new document I am opting to have a white background. When the document opens the background looks grey/blue-tinted and not white. Even the colours in the Swatches and custom colour picker- the white looks grey. Not sure how to work around this issue after looking around. Any ideas? Just for reference, I do not have a filter/effect on my monitor, everything else on my screen is perfectly white. The background to this website is white, even any text/numbers/icons in Photoshop are white. When it comes to the actual documents and any colouring tools that relate to the document are off-white or not true white.

Thanks!

Windows

D Fosse

Community Expert

@Kindhearted_Genie5E81

No, you didn't fix it by proofing to Monitor RGB. You just swept the real problem under the carpet.

This is a defective monitor profile. Replace your current monitor profile with sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (or Adobe RGB if it's a wide gamut monitor).

Type Color Management in Windows search, and change the profile here. Relaunch Photoshop when done, the profile is loaded at application startup:

This is a temporary measure so you can get back to work. The real and proper fix is to use a calibrator to make a new profile.

Bad manufacturer profiles are very often distributed through Windows Update.

Also, turn off HDR in Windows if it's on.

K

Kindhearted_Genie5E81Author

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Thanks for getting in touch, I switched my colour profile to the sRGB one and it didn't fix anything. If I make a new document and choose a white background then it has a blue/icy looking colour and not White. When I press CTRL+Y then it changes the background to white but the colour previews in the Swatches and Colour picker menus still have a blue tint when it's clearly mean't to look white.