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

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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?

Noel Carboni

Legend

For the record and future reference: Using sRGB as display profile is just a diagnostic or temporary fix. For non-critical use it may be close enough, however.

The purpose of the display profile in the color management chain is to be an accurate description of the display's response. Only a measurement by a calibrator can give you that. sRGB is a generic profile that just happens to be close enough to most monitors' native response that it works.

In the cases above replacing a broken display profile with sRGB is obviously an improvement. For some it's good enough. But a full fix it isn't.

To this day I'm amazed at how manufacturers can possibly deliver such terrible, bogus profiles for their monitors. As referenced by the above posters, it would be better if they delivered none at all and just allowed the system to default.

And, if the monitor can actually be made to accurately display the sRGB color space - and some monitors do offer a factory sRGB preset - then indeed it can be a good solution that also leads to consistency with other applications that assume sRGB.

But twenty_one is right on the money - if you want true accuracy, your monitor profile needs to describe your monitor's color response, and you need to use color-managed applications (with the understanding that not all of them - possibly not even a majority of them - do proper color-management). Photoshop is one such application that strives to get it right, though even Photoshop has its little quirks.

-Noel