2 Q's: No gray and Installing layer styles

[Ted W Brown]

I do not have grays, heh. When I go straight into the color tab on the right and type in 115 (or some similar supposed gray) for each RGB, I get a brown color. I double checked my Image Mode and it's RGB.

Also, I d/l'ed a free layer style and saved it in the appropriate directory, but I can't find how to get to it in PS. It doesn't come up in the styles already there. How do I "install" it?

I'm using version 7.

[barry gray]

1. redo monitor profile starting with a new profile not your old one.
2 Top right corner of style pallet> arrow> load style> navigate to your style

[Ted W Brown]

Awsome, thanks!

With the gray thing I did this:

Edit > Color Settings

Then chose Color Management Off for the setting, and it worked.

[barry gray]

Me thinks you should still redo your monitor profile as you shouldn't be having the grey problem. You'll definitely need to work in other color spaces/settings when going to print.

glad I could help.

[Chris Cox]

Ted - that's a good indication that it was a bad monitor profile at fault. So you haven't fixed the problem, only hidden it.

[Frankie Whitesides]

I have an nvidia card and a LCD monitor and no matter what I do I cannot get greyscale to appear as anything other than brown. It's frustrating. All of my work is intended for online use, so whether it prints or not is irrelevant. Turning off color management does nothing. Trying to work out a monitor profile does nothing, and is a very confusing and hopelessly ineffectual process.

[Frankie Whitesides]

Sorry, as an addenda, if I open an EPS or .ai file, all blacks appear as browns no matter what mode they're opened in.

Is it just me, or does this seem like a feature gone mad? Every other program opens a black eps file and shows black. Some of us don't care if a fancy printer as a service bureau sees our image absolutely correctly, we care that visitors to our web sites see a black bar when we save one, not a medium brown bar because Photoshop thought that was correct.

Sorry, but this is the pits. I've been using photoshop since 1992 and I've never had the problems I've had since installing my upgrade to 7.

[JohnSWhite]

Frankie,
Have you seen the following entry in FAQs:

Adobe Gamma and Nvidia drivers problem

John

[YrbkMgr]

Frankie,

If you don't care about color management, remove Adobe Gamma from the startup folder and in PS, turn color management policies to OFF (Edit|Color Settings).

Peace,
Tony