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White is not 'White', it is YELLOW!

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July 30, 2012
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I have a problem with the white color in Photoshop CS6, and I know it's not my computer or monitor. Anything white colored or anything for that matter, has a yellow tint to it. What should be white, is yellow. I even tried pasting a image of white on to the canvas, but that also turned yellow. I don't think it's my color settings. I also have Photoshop CS5, but that's fine. White is white. I pasted a screen shot of my computer onto both programs. CS5 is fine, but CS6 is still yellow. I cross referenced my color settings with CS5, making sure they're the same. One thing was different from CS5. The CYMK working space is "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2". I tried switching it to Photoshop 5 Default CMYK if that could change it to the CS5 default, but nothing changed. Even the color pickers have yellow instead of white. Gradients and Black to Yellow. It's not my computer or monitor. I want to use CS6 for my photo editing needs, but I'll need to use CS5 to do anything that needs normal color. Please help, I want to use CS6, CS6 is so cool, but I don't want yellow, I want white.

Correct answer D Fosse

https://forums.adobe.com/people/waheed+deepro wrote
From your photoshop VIEW menu, go to "Proof Setup" and just change it to "Monitor RGB". DONE

That temporarily disables color management and bypasses the corrupt profile.

But it's still corrupt. It doesn't solve the problem. The right way to solve this is to replace the broken profile with a good one.

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blakhawk

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Thank you you are a legend.

For anyone else with more than one monitor set each monitor to the advised profile

Wison_Aron

Participant

I dont think there is error in photshop , you might have check your monitors display settings, because i also had similar problem .

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Ajay Majumder

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The steps that noel advised worked fine for me.. Thanks a ton!!

Noel Carboni

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Changing your Color preferences only set your preferences for new documents or what to do with documents that don't have profiles - they don't change the color space a given document is using. Are you even editing in CMYK mode?

Charles is likely onto the real problem - a bad monitor profile.

What profile is associated with your monitor at the OS level?

Have you calibrated / profiled your monitor with a device? If so, what model? And what model is the monitor?

-Noel

enchanting_customer6765Author

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Acer P206HL

I did get a pop up when I first started CS6, something about monitor profile, clicked either 'Use Anyway' or "Ignore Profile" and not to show again, that must've been it. How do I go back to that?

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luojaUK

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That you haven't calibrated your display and that it appears to be a "standard gamut" monitor means you're probably okay with having your system work at Windows default settings.

Click Start, type color in the search box, then click Color Management when it comes up.

In the Devices tab, ensure that your monitor is selected in the Device field.

Check the [ ] Use my settings for this device box if it is not already checked.

If the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile is not showing in the Profiles associated with this device box, hit the [Add...] button and add it.

Click on sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and choose [Set as Default Profile].

[Close]

Now see if your colors look better in Photoshop.

-Noel

Hi,

Just a quick reply to say that over 2 years later, your answer (and steps) are the perfect solution to this issue. Have a BenQ monitor which made all whites in Photoshop a horrible yellow/tan colour and I followed your steps to the letter and the issue was resolved instantly!

Thank you