# Distorted Photoshop Colors? No Greys? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 29, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/distorted-photoshop-colors-no-greys/261593 "2008-05-29T04:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nick5185](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nick5185](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nick5185)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/distorted-photoshop-colors-no-greys/261593/1 "2008-05-29T04:31:38Z")
This is strange, just bought my friends PC and he had already installed Photoshop CS3 on it. I opened up an old file that was grayscale, but RGB mode. Everything looks tinted with purple.I converted to grayscale and it still looked purple. So I went to my color picker and those grays are tinted purple. Finally, I did a save for web and the grays are correct. Just while im in photoshop editing they look purple but save correctly. What could be causing this. I’m stumped! ---
**Author:** ![aho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@aho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aho)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/distorted-photoshop-colors-no-greys/261593/2 "2008-05-29T05:13:58Z")
It’s the color profile. In Photoshop 6 that stuff is over at Edit-\>Color Settings. Pick the “Web Graphic Settings” (or something like that) profile. Then everything should be back to normal. ---
**Author:** ![Nick5185](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nick5185](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nick5185)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/distorted-photoshop-colors-no-greys/261593/3 "2008-05-29T06:13:38Z")
[quote=aho;2332820]It’s the color profile. In Photoshop 6 that stuff is over at Edit-\>Color Settings. Pick the “Web Graphic Settings” (or something like that) profile. Then everything should be back to normal.[/quote] Thanx. Now I can set it to my monitor color profile and it looks good while editing, but when I goto save, it’s back to being tinted. So i have to go back into editing it and change the color space back to being tinted so when I save it looks correct. Kinda annoying but its working for now. Do you think it’s a monitor problem? Can I get everything on the same page as far as color profiles? ---
**Author:** ![aho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@aho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aho)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/distorted-photoshop-colors-no-greys/261593/4 "2008-05-29T08:07:42Z")
Hum. Well, some image formats support embedded color profiles (I’m sure PSD does). I guess that’s the issue here. Using that odd color scheme, saving for web (as png), then changing the color profile, and finally opening that png again should fix it.