Adobe Photoshop 7.0

[Shao Feng-Li]

How it is. I have Adobe Photoshop 5.0 and it all works fine. I got 7.0 up and running but the color is messed up. Anyone who uses it knows of the toolbar and the color picker tool (the two squares, one overlaps the other). Well the forground color is pink and the background color is black as if it's the default setting. THat would only be annoying if I could change it. When I try to change the forground color there's only pink to choose from.

This has happened before in PS 5.0 and by dad did sometihng that had to do with drivers, but it darkened the screen. Later he reinstalled the OS, which is WinXP Pro and it worked fine witohut the drivers being messed with. I tried PS 5.5 whcih is on the computer but it did that pink and black thing, then PS 5.0 did the same. At a loss I reinstalled PS 5.0 and it's been working fine.

Why would PS 7.0 be doing this and not PS 5.0? And how do I fix it?

Maybe it's a figgin' virus...

[Shao Feng-Li]

OH XXXX I posted in the wrong forum. Well, at least I was in the same neighborhood. If ya'll want to delete it, it's fine. I have it all saved. Sorry about that. It's been a month you know.

And I didn't do it to just be a brat. I flaked.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

i highly doubt it's a virus

[Shao Feng-Li]

i highly doubt it's a virus

That was actually a little bit of sarcasm because I think this machine has one anyway.

[Mithrandir]

I don't suppose the grapic you are trying to edit is a GIF with lot's of pink in it? A GIF image uses something called indexed color, and that can cause the image to only allow you to chose from colors in it's pallette.

Oh, and I'm moving this for yah.

[Shao Feng-Li]

No no no, before I even open anything it's like that. If go to file>new and open a blank canvas it's like that.

If I open a JPEG it turns liek that bright pink automaticly. You can see that screen shot. I'll take more to show you.

[Puguni]

It's either your graphics card or your color setting.

Er...get your graphics card checked...and for teh setting, right click on your desktop and go to properties. then to go settings on the tab. I have to admit, it's weird.

[Mithrandir]

Truth be told, I've never seen anything like that. (And in my line of work, that's sayin somethin!

[Esoteric]

That is freaky wierd. If it's not the video card, perhaps a corrupted PS file? It's so unusual, a program glitch would be my best guess.

[Shao Feng-Li]

Over 2000 members and no help. I'm doomed.

[Esoteric]

Have you tried contacting Adobe? If anyone else has heard of this problem, before, it would be them!

[Shao Feng-Li]

THat does sounds like the thing to do.