Photoshop Blue Sky

[Rolando Kumar]

Forsome reason, my transparency background tiles are showing as shades of blue. When I go into Preferences > Transparency & Gamut the grid colours are showing as two shades of blue (although I swear when I first opened this preference box when having this issue it was showing as grey and white) yet the preview box shows as grey and white.

It doesn't seem to be affecting the colour values of other layers (eg. the white rectangle) although I was having issues yesterday with trying to use curves to make an image 100% K so not sure if that's related.

The original preview for my GIF has a white background with logos sliding through. When i try to save to the web and make it into a GIF the optimized version turns from white into an off-white blueish color. How can i get the GIF to export white instead of blue?

Hi, I'm working on photoshop right now and for some reasons my path lines for the pen tool have changed from a very visible blue to a very thin grey line and I can barely see the handles or anchor points. I must have clicked something by accident. Can someone help me change it back? It's really hard working with it like this. Thanks in advance!

Additional path options are available from the Options bar see screenshot below. It seems there is a bug in 21.2.0 Version and options are grayed out at least on Windows machine, please report bug here _family

I am currently using Version 21.1.3, and I have the blue pen tool cursor, but I upgraded to the 21.2 version and I get the gray pen tool. I am not sure why, but what I did is I went back to 21.1.3 (latest version for the blue pen tool), and it works better now, but not sure whether to upgrade to the latest or stay at 21.1.3.

I had the same problem just now, I couldn't make the blue path line for the pen tool, but I was working with a file that I dragged directly from my files to photoshop, and I fixed it by going to File > Open (Ctrl + O) and opened the file that I wanted to work with, and the path lines were blue again.

Mine does this even during working on a file... It just flashes and makes the grey path which is not working properly. At the same time the transform tool also looks like this and is not working properly. I have to restart photoshop so it starts working correctly again and the paths are blue. It is very frustrating and I don't know why it does that.

Does turning off Use Graphics Processor in the Performance Preferences (Photoshop > Preferences > Performance > Graphic Processor Settings) and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue?

Does turning on Deactivate Native Canvas (Photoshop > Preferences > Technology Previews) and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue?

The only thing I am wondering about is that you are using a laptop. They tend to have two GPUs with an Intel HD... beiing used to keep power consumprion down, but your Sys info shows it using the high power RTX4070.

Check the rood directory of whatever drive you are using for Scratch space, and see how big the Photoshop Temp file(s) is/are, and if you have any that do not have todays date? In fact close Photoshop and see if you have any Photoshop temp files left behind, and if you do delete them.

Something is not happy here. It feels a bit desperate to try resetting Preferences, and my gut says that won't fix it anyway. Hopefully, someone will have spotted something obvious that my old eyes missed.

I'm wondering if Photoshop really is using the RTX4070 after reading this section of your sys info. I went as far as checking mine, and the same section only mentions the RTX4080. So check Preferences > Performance to confirm the GPU being used.

Hello, thank you for your attention to my problem. I haven't tried with a small (1000x1000) file, because I don't know what triggers this bug.. At some point while I'm drawing, the screen just flashes for a part of the second and that's it, it's bugged

Otherwise I only have one hard drive, with almost 800GB free, I didn't find any temp files when Photoshop is closed. I'm sending a screenshot of the performance window, where it says it should be using the Nvidia, and in the Nvidia software it says I'm with the studio driver. Also the file I'm working on, is not big, it's like 14Mb. I really don't know

Not sure what had happened, rather suddenly this popped up where #fff inside photoshop looks white, but anywhere else like browsers, my laptops, ect (even in the export saving screen of photoshop) it looks a bit blue. Any ideas what I might have done here?

I only glanced at display calibration (looked ok) as it is only white 'inside' the Photoshop editor, if you note the image I posted, it shows the psd I am editing as white, but then the output as blue.... Could that still cause this result?

#FFFFFF was the selected color with the test above, I made a checkered background on the edges when I was tinkering and trying to figure out why it 'white' inside the photoshop editor is resulting in that 'blueish' color anywhere outside of it.

I also always use the sRGB when outputting and normally just shoot everything out in png, what's really strange is my uses did not change, it was like one day it just started to output a different color so I am stumped at the cause of this.

Normally in these cases one would suspect a defective/corrupt monitor profile. Applications without color management don't use the monitor profile - and that applies to Export as well, until you enable color management by checking the box.

But that would work the other way: Photoshop would be wrong while other apps would be unaffected. So this looks more like a GPU bug to me. Try to reset the card to defaults first, then update the driver if that doesn't work.

If you press "D" and paint do you get black? (D is default which gives black on white). I am not seeing values and so it is difficult to say what colour you are getting but it should be fully possible to get black in photoshop. If you double click a swatch you also get to see the values could you send a screen shot of your colour picker values that give you this blue?

My question is why are you working in CMYK? You might have a perfect reason, and if so that is okay, but you'll want to take time to understand the relationship between the different color modes such as RGB and CMYK. Your settings indicate that you would NOT have a true black.

In the Lab a is 9 and b is 1 which is blue Now you are working in a CMYK document so what is your CMYK colour profile? Look in edit colour settings. (Why are you working in CMYK? It is normal practice to work in RGB even if you are working for Print and convert only to CMYK in the layout application)

That color should be a very dark brown/muddy black (if your screen is off not sure what you will see) in CMYK. Disregard LAB RGB HSB, as I do not know what color profile you are using, and CMYK is the document color mode of your file.

But, what if you know the final output will be CMYK and only CMYK? Then? Personally I feel that if we follow the RGB workflow route, it makes sense because then, if the CMYK profile changes, there is no problem in subsequent CMYK conversions...

You need to know the correct CMYK profile, the one corresponding to the actual process - the press, the paper, the ink used. Without knowing that first, the whole question is moot. Just look above, where Mike refers to GRACoL 2006, whereas the Photoshop default is US Web Coated SWOP - neither of which have any relevance in Europe, where ISO Coated of FOGRA is used. And that's just for coated paper stock.

In Ai you probably need K-only, overprinting blacks, so you may need to work in CMYK from the start. If that's not a consideration - which it isn't for photographs - it's much safer to keep your masters in RGB and convert as needed.

I'm getting random blue artifacts, I have tried different monitors, monitor recalibration, sRGB, and I've tried running it on CPU (not the GPU). No luck yet soon as I open it in ANY other program it seems fine. Just does it in camera raw. So far I have only seen this on JPEGs but I'm not sure about other file types.

The blue and red highlights in Adobe Camera Raw or Adobe Lightroom are called the Shadow/Highlight clipping warnings. They are indications of shadow or highlight areas that are lacking detail, meaning they have gone completely black or completely white.

Whether or not this is a bad thing is dependent upon whether those areas of the image should be completely black or completely white. Typically you don't want too much of either. Some things like lights or the sun may always clip.

Also, you can see them increasing or decreasing when you play with the exposure sliders. Usually, you'll want to minimize those parts of the image by "pulling them in" with the exposure controls, except for specular highlights etc.

Those blue areas are indications from ACR that those pixels are underexposed. If you click on two triangles on the top of histogram you will switch this on and off (left for underexposure, right for overexposure). The same can be done by pressing u and o letters

I have seen a lot of very different tutorials about how to remove blue lines from a scanned drawing. So I ask myself what is the best way in term of simplicity and quality to do this in Photoshop (CS3 and above).

Choice of pencil: Note that this method depends on that the pencil used has a pigmentation that almost only affects the blue component of the RGB image. You can try different pencils, and will notice that pencils with a little red in them (the ones that draw towards violet) will not work so good. Also make sure to always make you lines very light.

If you're going to use my method, you have to use a pencil containing either a pure red, green or blue pigment. Of these colors, I'd suggest blue, since it's a color that tends to not draw you attention too much. Blue is the color often used in landscape painting to show something is in a distance for example, and it's commonly used in film lighting to make backgrounds less prominent in the image. I think blue is a good choice of color for many reasong.

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