Edit: old problem, re-occurring.
OK, this is going to sound like a real newbie question, but I'm not an expert on photo editing programs.
Every time I load a picture in Photoshop Elements 9 it appears to have a pronounced grey cast. It's still in colour, just tinted grey. The colour isn't real: if I look at the picture in any other program, even load it as a background, it looks fine. But Elements makes it look grey. And that makes it hard to see what, if any, work needs doing to it.
To illustrate, a picture itself looks like this:
but opened in Elements 9 it looks like this:
Edit: I should point out that the first picture was opened in PSE9, shrunk, then uploaded to the web with no other changes. The second picture is a screen dump of PSE9 (before shrinking), loaded into Paintshop Pro 7 and then shrunk and uploaded. The first picture shows what I see if I open the picture directly in PSP7 as well as putting on the desktop etc. The second is an accurate version of what I see if I open in in PSE9 only.
I'm assuming that there's a setting somewhere that I've missed. It's not the background or layers I think: layers are set to normal and 100% opaque, and if I change the background colour it makes no difference. I can make changes to the picture on screen to loose the tint, but that changes the picture itself and makes it look odd everywhere else, and there's nothing wrong with the picture - just the way this prog displays it.
What's the really silly thing I'm missing? (Replies along the lines of "You're using the wrong program" will be treated with the respect that they deserve.) Cheers
M
OK, this is going to sound like a real newbie question, but I'm not an expert on photo editing programs.
Every time I load a picture in Photoshop Elements 9 it appears to have a pronounced grey cast. It's still in colour, just tinted grey. The colour isn't real: if I look at the picture in any other program, even load it as a background, it looks fine. But Elements makes it look grey. And that makes it hard to see what, if any, work needs doing to it.
To illustrate, a picture itself looks like this:
but opened in Elements 9 it looks like this:
Edit: I should point out that the first picture was opened in PSE9, shrunk, then uploaded to the web with no other changes. The second picture is a screen dump of PSE9 (before shrinking), loaded into Paintshop Pro 7 and then shrunk and uploaded. The first picture shows what I see if I open the picture directly in PSP7 as well as putting on the desktop etc. The second is an accurate version of what I see if I open in in PSE9 only.
I'm assuming that there's a setting somewhere that I've missed. It's not the background or layers I think: layers are set to normal and 100% opaque, and if I change the background colour it makes no difference. I can make changes to the picture on screen to loose the tint, but that changes the picture itself and makes it look odd everywhere else, and there's nothing wrong with the picture - just the way this prog displays it.
What's the really silly thing I'm missing? (Replies along the lines of "You're using the wrong program" will be treated with the respect that they deserve.) Cheers
M
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