colour swatches in CS3

**mikesimkiss** · 28 December 2011, 02:19 PM

I have just reinstalled CS3 after upgrading my OS to Windows 7.

In the 'swatches' palette, the greys now appear as shades of brown - not grey.

I'm sure there must be an option somewhere to correct this but as yet I have been unable to find it!!

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Mike

**handrawn** · 28 December 2011, 02:47 PM

first place I'd start is :

right click on your desktop > personalise > display > claibrate color

and see if that fixes it

[you may need to change your monitor color profile]

**mikesimkiss** · 28 December 2011, 03:31 PM

Thanks for your reply....

Greys generally display ok, it's just in the colour swatches they appear brown. If I click on the colour in the 'tools' palette to bring it up in the 'colour picker' it still appears brown in there.

**handrawn** · 28 December 2011, 05:19 PM

so if you apply a 'brown' swatch colour to a drawing say, it dispays the 'correct' shade of grey in the drawing?

**mikesimkiss** · 29 December 2011, 01:16 PM

No, brown.

If I then save the image as a jpeg and open it in Windows Photo Viewer, it still shows as brown. If I email the jpeg to my laptop and open it in that it shows the correct shade of grey.

I guess that points, as you said earlier, to the monitor but I doubted that because other grey items on the screen display ok!