CS3 - WTF have I screwed up?

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Helllllllllllllllllpp.

Black now shows as a darkish green no matter what I try to do. Any ideas welcome.

I've got that horrible feeling that I might have to uninstall and re-install. I've tried a repair without any success.
 
Didn't we have a thread a month or so ago about a similar problem.
Answer was a Photoshop de install and re install. Shouldn't take more than 20 or so minutes.
 
looking at your photo... i know its small and my eyes arent what they were,, the two little fill colour boxes on the bottom left toolbar look like white and green to me.
 
To get back to the default colours of black and white for background/foreground you just need to press the letter 'D'


It may work in you case. Otherwise its a uninstall reinstall!
 
Janice said:
looking at your photo... i know its small and my eyes arent what they were,, the two little fill colour boxes on the bottom left toolbar look like white and green to me.
Click to expand...

:agree:

Does clicking the little black over white squares above it in left hand tool pallette not resolve the issue?
 
Where you have the navigator at the top right, click Info instead, then select the Colour Sampler tool, and click on the green and black bits, (dropping a sample on each of them), then show us a screenshot?
 
Hmm strange

I'm going to go for Colour Profiles perhaps. I know I've already suggested it, but it's the only thing I can think of that will do something like that.

Any chance of a screenie of your Photoshop Colour Profile settings page?
 
have you got more than 1 adobe program installed? There is that shared Colour profile thing that caused my problems that is automatically installed when you have 2 programs or more istalled. Someone will know its official name, but I found it in my add and remove programs list, not the start menu programs list. There is a way to access it and adjust the settings but again, someone else will know better than I.
 
Colour profile as requested. This is driving me nuts. I've also uninstalled and reinstalled it - no difference. CS2 which I've still got loaded shows black as black. When I reinstalled CS3, I renewed the preference file but it still has "Best Workflow" installed which is a custom workflow to go with deke mcclelland's one on one book.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/bonedome/green3.png
 
I've trashed Bridge preferences and renewed them as well.
 
Control Panel > Display > Advanced > Colour Settings? (From memory, exact steps could be different).

Monitor profile?
Any graphics card / monitor software running?

It seems the colour tables have become confused.
 
I think Yvonne has it. Look at the top of the screen shot you sent of the CM set up. You'll see a little circle , next to that you will see a dialogue that says all your colour setting have been syncronised.

It looks like you've gone from composite RGB to composite CMYK.

Try this : from the Adobe web site

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Pho...t=WSA0A53A1F-BF46-4624-82C6-340A70EFB8C4.html

Alternatively delete the Adobe common settings program from the Add Remove programs option in Control Panel which I think is what Yvonne did
 
The synchronised settings are through Bridge for CS3 suite. I've removed CS2 and CS3 run CCleaner, renamed all Adobe folders I could find and reinstalled CS3. Still the same.
 
That Pixie (I assume it's external software) is simply reading the actual values passed to the monitor, which leads me to believe it's a monitor colour profile setting.

Is it just Photoshop?
 
When you removed CS2/CS3 did you do via Add/ Remove programes. If so did you notice if the Adobe Common Setting was deleted as well. It may be that this was still active. Try deleting that from Add/Remove and see if makes any difference
 
Pixie's just a little freeware proggy that is a good colour picker. As far as I can tell it's just Photoshop.

I'm being thick here and don't know enough about the program to understand this bit, but how can it be a monitor colour profile setting when it will show pure black as the background colour that the canvas is on?

Never had an Adobe Common Setting showing on Add/Remove.
 
I still am wondering why when the fill bucket is in the top toolbar and is set to foreground but the foreground colour is green in the little colour boxes at the bottom of the left vertical toolbar... surely it is bound to fill it with green unless you set that to black.....or am i missing something here?
 
That's the whole problem. It's coming out as green but is actually picked out as black 0,0,0 rgb on the swatch.
 
This is getting weirder and weirder. OK try this. Go to the colour management settings as you've done before, and where it says Working space click on the RGB option. Now scroll up slowly and you'll see the Monitor profile that Photoshop is using. This should be the default profile for your monitor. Now if you've not got the monitor calibrated I think it'll default to sRGB. Can't be sure as I've not used PS on an uncalibrated system for years. If it's not this or something like Colormatch or Apple colour. Make a note of what it was and try one of these. I'd suggest Colormatch as the most likely candidate as it refers to the colourspace of a Radius Colormatch monitor.

You'll need to set it as the default profile for your system. If you've not done this before it is in fact easy.

Minimise all applications and right click on the desktop.Select properties and then settings. Click on the advanced tab at the bottom of the box. Now from the array of tabs you have choose colour manamgement. You'll see the default system profile if any displayed here. Click ADD and navigate vai this dialogue box to Windows / System 32/ Spool/ Drivers/Color. Yes it's a bit burried. Now choose Colormatch and click ADD. This will then drop you back to the Colour management box. Highlight Colormatch and click Set as Default. Close all boxes. Close Photoshop and then restart it. Does this improve things, I hope so
 
:hug: Sorry mate, I really cant offer any more advice, but I really do feel your pain, even after I had sorted mine out to acceptable level, it was never right and combined with a few niggly faults on other programs [not colour related] I finally conceded defeat and formatted the machine and started again. All works perfectly now but to this day I still don't know what caused the initial issue [in cs3, everything was so oversaturated and odd hues but bridge was fine] and why even when that was solved it then muted all the colours. :shrug: Its very very frustrating and was only help from people on here, like chappers, and others, that stopped my throwing the machine out of the adjacent window!
 
Arrrggghhhh. Almost but not quite. Changed the profiles, restarted PS and the swatch showed black.

Opened up a new canvas and the bloody swatch immediately changed back to dark green. This computer could well be taking flying lessons in the very near future.
 
YEEEEEE-HAHHHHHH.

Thanks all. I've just cycled through 3 different profiles, rebooting after setting each one and finally sRGB has provided the goods and the default profile is working as it should do. I now have black showing as black. Plus I know quite a bit more about PS.

Once again, thanks for your patience and help.
 
Um.... it shows as a black rectangle with a green rectangle inside it on Windoze. It was the green rectangle that should have been black. Sorted now after 3 days of pain and some new additions to my Anglo Saxon vocabulary.
 
Just out of interest can you remember what the profile setting was set to
 
Monitor was set to the Sony profile, CS3 was synch'd through bridge to the standard North American General Purpose 2.

I just cycled through a couple of different mixes and then went back to the original and it worked. 3 days of hair tearing and although its fixed I still haven't got a damn clue what the problem was. I think it was just CS3 having a hissy fit.
 
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