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I searched all around for similar problems, but found that everyone’s grayscale -> green problems seemed to reside after the image had been printed. Well, my problem is the same effect, but actually inside photoshop.
Alright, short and sweet version of what I’ve done.
– First, I fresh installed Photoshop. I then instantly tried to put the image into grayscale because I had this problem before… and it looks olive green.
– Ok, so lets turn color management off… no good, just became a slightly darker olive green.
– Ok, color management back to normal, convert to grayscale, SAVE, and re-open… still olive green.
– Alright, re-open grayscale-saved image WHILE color management is off this time… YES, it looks like real grayscale! Wait, it says (index) in the title bar… so Image -> Mode -> Grayscale… back to green again.
It’s ridiculous – I can save a grayscale image and open it without color management and it looks fine, I can open it in MS Paint just fine (looks perfectly gray), I can open it in anything else and it looks fine, but for some reason whenever I do it in Photoshop, while working in PS, it goes back to "gray is olive green" mode.
Photoshop even recognizes it isn’t true gray when Color Management is off! When I go from RGB -> Grayscale (makes it green), BACK to RGB again, the color picker tool even picks up an olive green color (for example.. 140R, 140G, 86B).
It’s even worse if I keep color management on, because then even in RGB mode all grays look olive green. For example, I’ll take a gray color like 128R, 128G, 128B and slide the Blue slider down to 0 to make an Olive Green color, and there will be almost NO CHANGE in color. Is it Olive Green, or Grey? You can’t even tell under those conditions.
Sooo, if anyone can provide some help, it’d be MUCH appreciated.
Alright, short and sweet version of what I’ve done.
– First, I fresh installed Photoshop. I then instantly tried to put the image into grayscale because I had this problem before… and it looks olive green.
– Ok, so lets turn color management off… no good, just became a slightly darker olive green.
– Ok, color management back to normal, convert to grayscale, SAVE, and re-open… still olive green.
– Alright, re-open grayscale-saved image WHILE color management is off this time… YES, it looks like real grayscale! Wait, it says (index) in the title bar… so Image -> Mode -> Grayscale… back to green again.
It’s ridiculous – I can save a grayscale image and open it without color management and it looks fine, I can open it in MS Paint just fine (looks perfectly gray), I can open it in anything else and it looks fine, but for some reason whenever I do it in Photoshop, while working in PS, it goes back to "gray is olive green" mode.
Photoshop even recognizes it isn’t true gray when Color Management is off! When I go from RGB -> Grayscale (makes it green), BACK to RGB again, the color picker tool even picks up an olive green color (for example.. 140R, 140G, 86B).
It’s even worse if I keep color management on, because then even in RGB mode all grays look olive green. For example, I’ll take a gray color like 128R, 128G, 128B and slide the Blue slider down to 0 to make an Olive Green color, and there will be almost NO CHANGE in color. Is it Olive Green, or Grey? You can’t even tell under those conditions.
Sooo, if anyone can provide some help, it’d be MUCH appreciated.
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