Photoshop white gradients/greys turning brown.

[jtilling345]

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.

[Guest]

Hi

Have you tried resetting the Tools

If that doesn't help try resetting PS preferences

[jtilling345]

didn't work. Thank you though

[rob day]

What color profile is assigned to the gradient document?

[D Fosse]

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.

[andreamaestri]

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.

[Norman Sanders]

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.

[jtilling345]

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.

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

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

[jtilling345]

How do I reset monitor profile to fix it?

[jtilling345]

This worked! Thank you so much!