I can't see blue colors in Photoshop!

For some reason, just in photoshop, any time I open a picture with blues or try to select blue as a color, it turns into purple. No where in the program can I do anything with blue. But if I save the image using blue (which still appears to be purple) it will be blue outside of photoshop.

This is pretty annoying and it might just be a setting or something that I don't know.

Any help? Thanks.

Most likely a color managment problem..

What version PS?
What OS?

Photoshop CS2.
Windows XP Home.

Thanks.

Alright first things first, go into PS EDIT > COLOR SETTINGS

Open the top dropdown menu and select "North American General Purpose" Click ok and see if that helps.

It was already set there. On another forum someone suggested this:

You need to profile your monitor using Adobe Gamma or a third party profiling device.

Have a look here for more on colour management: http://www.computer-darkroom.com

I'll look into it a little later on. Does that sound right though?

No, that doesn't sound right to me.
It isn't your monitor that is acting up, since you said you are only experiencing problems in Photoshop. I'm pretty sure you have activated a profile somewhere in Photoshop.

I'm with NL, if the problem isn't present across the entire windows Os I don't think its Gamma.

Can you get a screen shot of the Color Setting dialog and post it?

You might also just try setting the 3 color managment drop down menus to "none" and see if that cures the problem. If it does I know where to go from there.

You may need to reinstall the package if you get no success.

I go tit to work ok. One of the color setting were wrong. I forget exactly which one. But I had to switch it to my actual monitor profile instead of one of adobe's presets. Everything looks fine now.

Thanks, guys.