Whites displaying as tinted blues and reds. Are there any known fixes for this?

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Hi everyone, this is my first time posting in this forum so I’ll do my best to explain my issue.

Today I encountered an unrelated issue regarding Photoshop brushes having seemingly random inputs. So, after a little reading, I saw that the solution seemed to be updating my drivers. I checked my laptop and saw there was a backlog of updating so I went ahead and installed those as needed. After rebooting and launching Photoshop, my brushes were fixed but I noticed the whites on my canvas, color picker, and layer thumbnails were tinted blue.

I searched this forum and found someone else encountered this on this thread but the posted solution there did not work for me. Instead, I found a YouTube video from 9 years ago addressing a similar issue (instead of blue, it was yellow). They went into Device Manager and added sRGB profile to their monitor and set that as default instead of the monitor’s native profile. That semi-worked for me. The whites in my canvas and color picker seemed fixed, but oddly enough, now my transparency grids are tinted pink!

I’m at a loss as I’m not entirely sure what caused the issue and why the solutions I’m finding either don’t work or only partially work. Has anyone encountered this? I’m not nearly as techy as others seem to be in this community so I could really use some guidance. I’ll attach some screenshots of the current state. Thank you.

This is with monitor set to sRGB in Device Manager with default Color Settings in Photoshop

Image of pinkish transparency grid. Notice the layer thumbnail as well.

Showing Device Manager settings (confirming it is the correct monitor with the giant 2)

Native monitor color space makes the white tint blue. This is only happening in Photoshop. Most UI seem unaffected.

KR Seals · Accepted Answer

Did you use Lenovo as the source of your new GPU driver? Or, Windows? It’s usually preferable to use the manufacturers GPU drivers. I would also check Intel to see if they have updated drivers for your specific GPU. If the latest drivers don’t fix the issue, try some earlier ones. Restart the computer after each driver update.

D Fosse · Answer

The Lenovo monitor profile is clearly broken, so you can’t use that. Photoshop is color managed and will actually use the monitor profile. Many other applications don’t.

Did you relaunch Photoshop after changing monitor profile in Windows? You need to do that. The profile is loaded at application startup, and is used for the duration of that session.

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