Photoshop colours not displaying correctly

[SteveD1234]

Hi,

Using PS 21.1.3. Something's happened with my colour pallette in Photoshop, and the colours are no longer standard (with #000000 being black). Screenshot below shows that black is now a dark green colour.

I've tried editing the colour settings (Edit > Colour Settings) but none of them change it back to the standard colours. Also tried deleting all preferences (Edit > Preferences > General > Reset all prefences on exit), and also uninstalling Photoshop and reinstalling it, but nothing seems to work.

Any help would be great!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What is the image’s color space? 

Can you check if your monitor profile is faulty by changing it to sRGB? 

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

Don't change anything in Color Settings! That's not where the problem is. Change everything back.

Yes, this is a broken monitor profile. Seems a new batch of bad manufacturer profiles are pushed through Windows Update now. Temporarily change it to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 here. The proper fix is to use a calibrator to make a new profile, but sRGB may be close enough for now:

[Test Screen Name]

Hex numbers are not a standard! This is a dangerous myth which causes huge problems. 000000 is going to be close to black, but variable, depending on your settings.

[davescm]

In an RGB colour space 0,0,0 should indeed be black. That issue with the colour picker is definitely a broken monitor profile issue

Dave

[SteveD1234]

This worked, thanks a lot!