JPEG image background turns pink instead of white

Hi Paige:

I'll make a wild guess that the background color is actually pink, and you just aren't seeing it in Photoshop without a white edge to compare it to. I'm making this guess after watching countless students try to select white in the Color picker and picking a very light pink instead.

When I ask a new student to pick white, they invariably click in the vicinity of white, which gives them pink with the default colors.

This is my opportunity to teach them how to read white using one the color models on the right, usually RGB or HEX, depending on their backgrounds. In RGB, white is 255 255 255 and in HEX it's ffffff.

If you want to test this theory, open Window > Info and select the Eyedropper tool. Click on the background color: does the info panel show white via the numbers displayed in RGB or HEX?

Now to fix it, you can either select the pink and replace it with white or remove the background altogether as per Wildcat4. Let us know if you need a hand.

~Barb

Try turning off the white background layer in photoshop and saving the image as a transparent .png