AboutScott Valentine Expertise Author, "Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 (Peachpit)". Beginning to expert questions for Photoshop CS3 and CS4 Extended, including 3D capabilities. I am also an expert here for Digital Photography. Please - NO questions on Lightroom, Elements, Express or versions earlier than CS2. These questions will be discarded.
Experience Author, "Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4" (available from Peachpit.com in January, 2009). I have been a professional level user since 1999, and have used Photoshop for photography, fine art, graphic design, web design, and technical image analysis. I have also conducted classes at the college level in both artistic and technical uses. I am currently an Adobe User Group manager.
Organizations National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Los Alamos Multimedia Users Group.
Publications CommunityMX.com, Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 (Adobe Press).
Education/Credentials Bachelor's degree, Physics
Awards and Honors Several awards for digital photography.
I'm using Photoshop CS2 ( vista ) and i can't seem to get the color white as my background/ foreground. I tried typing in the code number for white # ffffff but i get a cream like color instead. However in image ready cs2, i have no problem getting the color white. I don't know what's the problem.
Answer Hi Jess,
You may have some kind of color space or color profile set for Photoshop that is preventing you from seeing white. If you press D with any document open, you should get the default white/black for your background and foreground swatches.
Try holding down the SHIFT key while Photoshop launches and choose to reset the preferences file. If this doesn't work, you'll have to check for monitor profiles that may be assigned to Photoshop on your video card. Another thing to check is whether you are running Adobe Gamma - if so, turn it off.
If these don't help, please let me know and we'll try a few other things.
