photoshop 5 don´t know the colour white....

[Guest_imported]

hi,
my photoshop 5.5 (mac) don´t knows the colour white anymore.... i don´t know why. If i create a new document it is yellow... but photoshop "says" that this yellow is white! The "farbregler", (i thing in english it is colour öh... i don´t know. I mean the thing where you can change the colour,..) there is not any white. WHY?
greetings seihno

 

[TFfan]

I suspect you should change the mode of your canvas to RBG (image->mode->RGB).

 

[SPYDERIX]

press D, that will set the colors in the toolbar to black, and white, switch the colors, and that will be white.
Nate
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!"

 

[TFfan]

I think he's working with an indexed file and therefore with a limited palette and that's why colours aren't what htey seem.

 

[SPYDERIX]

I see!

Make sure when you open a new Image you choose "RGB".
Oh, did you color manage when you first loaded Photoshop, that could be you problem. You might have accidentally set some weird color matching system up. You might consider re-installing photshop, then when it first starts up, it will ask if you want to color match (or whatever it says), then say OK, then don't chnge anything and just push OK again, and see if that works.
Nate
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!"

 

[blueark]

When you create a new file, the New dialog box asks you what color the contents should be. Set that to white and it shouldn't matter what color mode/management you have set up.

 

[blueark]

Another possibility: Your monitor. If all white areas are yellow, even in other programs, then either your monitor is starting to age, or you will need to reset the white point (check the documentation that came with your computer). If it's only Photoshop, use the Adobe Gamma utility to correct any color casts.