I really don't know what I did to change this but my colours in Photoshop are all out of whack. The most obvious is when I choose good ol' Maraschino in Apple's colour picker, and instead of bright red I get a muddy orange.

All the online info I managed to find suggest I have the wrong Colour Settings selected, but I've chosen quite a few and even quit & re-opened after doing so and it doesn't make a difference.

It has to be something unique to Photoshop, because I can see good red colours in other applications, and the OS. I even tried a screenshot of the colour picker, which showed bright red for the Maraschino crayon, and the muddy orange up the top as the selected colour. The save for web preview showed it like this too, and it looks OK when I open the converted file in preview (crayon red, selected colour orange), but when I open it in PhotoShop even the crayon has changed to that orange colour.

I've done a mix of print and web based work before, in RGB and CMYK, and the colours always looked fine on-screen, I've never come across this before...any suggestions?

Cheers

http://www.colourmanagement.co.nz/ph...r_settings.htm

and set your screen back to factory settings....... or use a screen calibrator, spyder or eyeone, if you have changed the screen settings too much.......

Changing the display's profile back to 'iMac' worked! I still don't understand this as I could still see bright red in other apps, wouldn't a display profile just affect how it's looks onscreen, for all apps?

Pity, as I have found Wide Gamut RGB otherwise to be a very good profile to use...

Thanks for the help.

unless you set up your "colour management in photoshop" as per the above link your colour will NEVER be right..........

Are you using CS1 or CS2?

Is the intention to get RGB values the same in Photoshop to look and match RGB colours in all non-photoshop apps?

Photoshop colour management in PSCS1 and PSCS2 are the same.........

Not in my experience.

I haven't found a solution to perfectly matching what's on screen when editing RGB images to what's shown in Safari etc when using CS2. I can do it in CS1 easily.

I'm just talking about web/widget work.

...... but has your screen been profiled....... and are you working in the correct colour space

how about - VIEW - proof colours

maybe you have CMYK proofing on an RGB colourspace, make sure that option isn;t selected