Photoshop White = Light Yellow-Brown

[Fo1k-E]

So, a few days back I just bought a new SyncMaster 216BW(21.6") LCD monitor, upgrading from my old 17" CRT from eMachines. Well, anyways, ever since I've gotten it, only a few problems have occurred, I have one dead pixel, a stuck pixel, and Photoshop thinking that white is a light yellow-brown color.

Everywhere else white is white, even in Photoshop white is white. And I've gotten it to allow me to select white, but, if I start a new document then try and choose white, or select background color(white), it'll give me the light yellow-brown color. Another thing, if I save it as a JPEG/JPG or the like, it'll appear as white, I'm the only one getting the funky white color.

As a clarification, I mean that only the document receives the weird light yellow-brown color as white. Photoshop splash screen appears white, the tool bars are white, everything else is normal.

If you guys could help, that'd be great! Thanks.

[shadowpr]

Try to uninstall and reinstall. See if that helps.

It sounds like a program problem more than a monitor problem.

[TwoRails]

Agreed. Did you calibrate the monitor in Photoshop? And use then use the same color profile for system use?

[peekaboo]

let me get this straight.
you open a new document, press "d" so that it reverts to the default foreground and background colors, then you click on the white foreground/background box and the color picker appears.
the rgb values are 255, 255, 255 (cmyk 0,0,0,0) but it appears on the screen as a light brownish color?
is this correct?

[Fo1k-E]

Originally Posted by peekaboo let me get this straight. you open a new document, press "d" so that it reverts to the default foreground and background colors, then you click on the white foreground/background box and the color picker appears. the rgb values are 255, 255, 255 (cmyk 0,0,0,0) but it appears on the screen as a light brownish color? is this correct?

Indeed, that is correct. BUT! Before I open a new document, it'll give the correct color. I'll reinstall anyways and come back if I still have problems, thanks for now, guys.

[kato691]

Please help!
I just yesterday brought a new widescreen monitor for pc and the same problem occured! Everything else was working fine on photoshop, and my monitor shows white clearly as 'white' everywhere else, but in the actual document that is to be edited on photoshop it is yellowish/brownish as if sepia tone was added. I found it first when I tried to open one of my b/w images. Then I tried colour photographs to open in photoshop and the same fact that they were a bit warmy colour than they are in originals. I mean original true vivid colours can be seen on the same monitor without changing the settings, but in photoshop same photograp looks warm toned.

I've just tried to reinstall again to my favorite CS2 version, and it still happens. Don't know any alternatives to fix it. Could anyone help me? Perhaps the person who came up with it before and fixed this, could give an advice how he did it?..

I would truly appreciate that.
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[Edited: Issue Solved]

Oh, now everything's fine, I done it by myself. I checked through some other forums including Adobe web-site forum,where I found some basic info that it's the matter of Colour Management. Later I found out in our monitor settings (Properties ---> Settings ---> Advanced ----> chose Color Management)
It is sometimes that new monitors addjust their own settings in the monitor drive. Then we need to find (click Add) the basic sRGB colour profile (usually called sRGB Color Space Profile). Select this and press set as default. This will change our monitor color profile to sRGB that is desirable by Photoshop.

Thats how I solved my issue. Just in case any more 'unknowing' users will came with this.