Color question?!?!

[User45]

I have a strange problem. I downloaded the tryout version of Adobe Photoshop CS2 but a strange things occurs. I don't have the white color as an option to select! Instead i have in its place only a light yellow and generally i can't use white color at all only some yellowish one. Also the images i load have a yellow appear....WHY?
When i go to Color properties with CTRL+SHIFT+K whatever i define i have the same problem except when i set RGB to "My Monitor RGB" instead of "North America,Europe 2 etc..."
While i could live with the RGB setting be at this and everything would be normal, i can't do it, since i want to know the reason that it doesn't work in ALL other options....

What is going on? Is it my monitor(LG L1930SQ) or is it because it is a trial version of Photoshop and have to buy the whole package?

Thanks in advance....

 

[jmgalvin]

It's not the trial version that's the problem. White is white.

Your monitor setting can definitely make white look yellowish. Ambient light can do this. Since I work on Macs, and use their calibration, I can't tell you how to calibrate yours. However, setting it to your monitor should be correct, unless you set it to something else and the calibrate it to that setting.

In your color setting try turning Color management off and see if that helps. If you're in the US you could also select US Prepress defaults and see how that works - making the rgb Abode 1998.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4