Lost white in Photoshop CS3

[handrawn]

I am glad that this 'quick fix' remains useful

[Mike11]

Here is something that may or may not help:

when rebuliding my system long time back I got a message on opening photoshop that said my color profile appeared to be corrupt did I wish to use/ignore.
Whichever option I chose, the white in Photoshop appeared off-white/cream as you describe. Apart frpm Photoshop Elements no other program was affected.
I had changed my monitor to a philips LCD and XP had the CM profile as PhilipsLCD which Photoshop did not seem to like.
Changing the CM in XP desktop properties settings advanced to sRGB [or any other adobe recognised RGB] fixed this.

......I would like to add that if you don't see sRGB on the Color Management Tab under Color Profiles. Click ADD and search for sRGB Color Space Profile.icm.....
Jeri

Me 3 :-)

Just registered to say "Thanks guys"

Mike

[lothop]

I had the same problem with Cream instead of white.

Photoshop had trouble with monitor profile. I ignored.
Windows 7 Pro OS.

Edit -> Color Settings -> Changed the Settings value to Monitor Color.

Also when creating a new document - File -> New -> Expand the Advance settings -> Set Color Profile to Dont color Manage this document


Hope that helps someone.