Photoshop file loses color in Painter! Please Help!

OK… here’s the problem.

I’ve already found that painter does not work in CMYK at all. So I’ve taken to creating my images in RGB only in photoshop if i know I’m going to be working on them in Painter.

What happens is that I create a file in Photoshop. Usually just the outlines.

Bring it in to Painter and do my coloring to it.

Then a lot of times when I bring it back into Photoshop it still opens the file as CMYK. If I save any changes, even if I convert it back to RGB prior to saving, and open it in Painter it’s (the color) TRASHED. It’s washed out… and it has a very blue tint to it.

so again it goes like this

Create in photoshop
paint and Save in painter.
Take it back into photoshop (this is where i think the problem happens) to make alternate changes
Open again in Painter and all the colors are out of whack and tinted blue.

please… I’m at a complete loss… I don’t know much about painter as I’ve just started using it… and any help would be great.