Colors 'off'

[anrobe]

For some reason, I've noticed that the colors in PSE 5 are suddenly 'off' - I've noticed it with blues in particular. Instead of blue they are showing as grey. When I open the item in another program, they look blue as they are supposed to but when I pull them into PSE 5 the color changes. Any idea what might be going on or how I can fix it?

[douglas m scott]

anrobe,

Have you tried resetting the adobe photoshop elements settings file?
Maybe a setting got corrupted or accidently changed.
Hold down the Shift+Alt+Ctrl keys while starting elements, when the window appears asking if you want to delete the settings file click yes, you should then have the original default settings.

doug

[anrobe]

Yes, I tried that but its still doing it. I was hoping that would fix it but no luck. It's so strange because other colors look okay. I tried green, red, brown, yellow, orange. all fine. Blues though always look grey. And what is even stranger is that if there is something with blue and green for example - the green looks fine but the blue is grey??

[johnrellis]

You may have a damaged color profile associated with your display. See this FAQ:

http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Colors_are_wrong

[anrobe]

I think that worked - it took me awhile to get it to remove the profile but the file I'm looking at is now blue!!! YAY! Thank you so much, John!

[johnrellis]

Great, glad it was that simple.