Colors are messed up

[eboi]

Hello all. I just recently installed Photoshop 7.0 and came across a problem at startup. First off I get the message box saying "You currently have Adobe Photoshop's primary Scratch and Window's primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop's primary scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferable on a different physical. I have 2 drives.

2. When I open up a file, the colors look very off. I was just wondering if anyone can help me out. Thanks much

 

[kiddpete]

1. Set up Photoshop to use the 'other' drive (D?).

2. This has probably been answered many times. Try a search for 'color profile' or 'color matching'. If your monitor has an sRGB setting, use it and set Photoshop's color space to sRGB. Otherwise, try the Adoble Gamma setting program. It may help. Finally, try the searches mentioned above.

 

[eboi]

I searched for 'color matching' and color profile as you said and nothing found. How would I go about setting Photoshop to use the or drive "D". I went to edit>preferences>plug-ins and scratch disk and set everything to D: / Maximum RAM used by photoshop to 200MB and it still doesn't work. Can someone guide me step by step. Thanks again

 

[dimoj]

kiddpete was pretty much spot on with his advice but he was probably a little brif for you to understand.

Firstly, there is some debate as to whether having your scratch disk on another drive does actaully improve Photoshops performance anyway, but nevertheless:

In the Preferences>Plug ins and scratch disk options you need to set the 'First' scratch to a different drive to that which Photoshop is installed on. So if PS is on C then set 'first' scratch disk to another phsical drive (more likely E as most 'stock' computers have the disc drive as D (DON'T use Disc drive or Floppy drive as a scratch disk!!!)).

Regardless of whether you do that or not, you shouldn't see that scratch disk message again after the first launch anyway.

About the colour thing. You sound like a Windows user to me. If so you will find Adobe Gamma in your Windows control panel. There is a Wizard you can run from within that program that will take you step by step through how to set up your colour profile.

Good luck

 

[eboi]

Dimoj thank you for your help. I tried the Adobe Gamma and the colors are back to normal. Thanks again