Photoshop white gradients/greys turning brown.

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December 28, 2018
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My photoshop was working perfectly and now my gradients don't seem to work and everything (Mainly greys) has a weird brown color to it. please help! The second picture is of a white radial gradient that looks brown.

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Correct answer D Fosse

When the color picker looks like that, it's a broken monitor profile.

D Fosse

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When the color picker looks like that, it's a broken monitor profile.

jtilling345Author

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How do I reset monitor profile to fix it?

Norman Sanders

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This Lab reading confirms the brown result you are seeing. The a and the b channels should each read zero. Currently the a. channel is reporting a tinge of magenta and the b channel reports a stronger yellow.

jtilling345Author

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I'm not sure exactly what your saying here, when i go to the "color picker" to change foreground or background color it looks like this. It's a brownish where my grey colors should be.

andreamaestri

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Did you updated Windows recently? It seems that some users have some problems with color profiles lately, might be worth to revert before the last update.

D Fosse

Community Expert

This is a defective monitor profile, most likely delivered through Windows Update. Replace it with sRGB IEC61966-2.1 if you don't have a calibrator to make a new one.