Editing window is showing sepia for B&W pictures

[tomblandin]

I am trying to "fix" some old pictures that are Black and White.  When I view the pictures on my monitor and on other monitors/TV they are B&W, implying that this issue I am discussing is not a monitor profile issue.  THE PROBLEM: In Elements 15 the picture displays in the Photo Bin>Show Open Pictures as B&W, BUT in the editing window the picture is slightly Sepia.   I cannot remove this tint and I am worried.  This issue implies that all pictures in color or otherwise will have a slightly red tone subtracted from them if I edit to the color and temperature in the editing window that looks good to me.  I just noticed that the image mode is considered (RGB/8) rather than B&W (no such mode) or Grayscale (Note: the tint is also showing then the Image>Mode is set to Grayscale see picture), the added tint is present on both modes.  Is there problem with my Elements 15?  Is there a setting that I have failed to adjust? How do I compensate for the added tint in the editing window?  WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

[99jon]

The image is loading as grayscale. Go to the menu and click:

Enhance >> Auto Color Correction

[tomblandin]

Jon99, Thank-you for the exceptionally quick response.  The suggestion does not show success.  Got another idea?

[hatstead]

tomblandin  wrote

  The suggestion does not show success.  Got another idea?

Yes.

Open a Hue/saturation adjustment layer above the background layer, and move the saturation slider all the way to the left.

[Jeff Arola]

On the contrary i think it is a monitor profile issue.

As far as i know, greyscale mode images can't have any color, so they certainly wouldn't be Sepia colored.

Other programs on windows may not be color managed, but pse 15 is.

What version of windows are you using?