What is Photoshop CS5?
What is Photoshop CC?
What is Photoshop CS6?
Why are some colors wrong on my images?
Why are the borders between parts of a scene different?
Why are my brushes on the page different than the camera’s brushes?
Why are my brushes and text all over the page?
What is a “blend”?
Can I “save” my images to Adobe’s Cloud?
How do I get Photoshop CS6?
Why are some colors wrong on my images?
The problem is simple: Your colors are not right. If your images look wrong to you, you are probably looking at the color space that your camera is using and is not seeing the colors accurately. You are looking at the brightness and contrast of your images in relation to each other and not seeing the same colors in your black and white images.
For those of you still living in the old ways of viewing, this may seem confusing. The issue may not be what you are seeing physically, but what you are seeing through your screen, your laptop or any other viewing medium you use. Some color space presets are designed to display the colors for your viewing (Photoshop). Others, like CIE L*a*b* wavelengths, are derived from theoretical theoretical calculations that are more accurate. If you’re not aware of those differences (and who isn’t?) you might have trouble seeing them (even if you do see them in some images).
For example, if your monitor is calibrated against a white background, and you take a picture of the sky (in the CIE range of 200 to 600 nanometers), the sky should look white. But your monitor may look gray at a viewing distance of 20 meters.
So what does it mean to say that the background is looking “gray?” As long as you know the color space, you can tell that that is what it is.
When you look at Photoshop’s color space presets, they are made for you to use. All of the tools work for the computer you are using, if you have a computer that works that way. However, if you are using a tablet or smartphone, the computer and apps you are using are not the same. And then you get to the next question.
Why are some colors wrong on my images?
You may be wondering why some colors are wrong, why others aren’t? There are many reasons.