gradients from black to white have purple instead of gray!?? helP!!!

[mdjstudios]

www.airspacedesigns.com/mdjobadze/ex.JPG
what the heck is wrong. (click link up top)

[mdjstudios]

www.airspacedesigns.com/mdjobadze/ex.JPG
what the heck is wrong. (click link up top)

by the way, the black is black and the white is white. there are only 4 tab thingys. when i render out something of that color it does NOT show the purple. but when im drawing it hella shows the purple. i tried uninstalling and reinstalling but no good.

[prstudio]

so when you config the gradient it shows purple...but when you actually use the gradient in your composition it shows up right?

Cause that screenshot shows the middle colors being purple on your color picker...perhaps there is more than one tab on the far left - i've had weird color things happen because I had more than one selector to the left...

[mdjstudios]

nope double check that stuff. i made sure my 2 colors are black and white. 2 bottom tabs only... when i draw, its purple, when i make it a jpg or something, its gray.

[prstudio]

color modes all set right?

[mdjstudios]

what do u mean?
these are my default color settings...
www.airspacedesigns.com/mdjobadze/cs.JPG

[.soulty]

thats strange, dosent look like its K (black) might be a mixture of colours that are making black... hmmm... you tried hitting D on the keyboard to get the default colour before looking into the gradient?

[Desire]

ermmm i can only think of layer modes is it set to normal or summit? cos might be interacting with the layer below?

ermmm if u configed ur gradiant just go over all the settings to make sure u didnt add purple in there.

hummm?? strange

[mdjstudios]

i already tried pressing d and on regiht clieked on the gradien adn clicked reset all tool and stilln othing.

[.soulty]

hey headface, post a simple psd and i will check it out on my system.

[mdjstudios]

ok, i made one but when you see it on my desktop its black and white, when i open it u then see the purple. one thing bout my swatches, i have no gray, its like a purple tint color, when i mouse over it it says gray 50%.. heres the psd.

[Desire]

oh check ya color mode is it RGB? just thought of that try flipin it to greyscale see if that changes it?

desaturate the layer! thats surely gotta sort it?
shift + crtl + u

try that as well

[mdjstudios]

loook at this. www.airspacedesigns.com/mdjobadze/ex3.JPG

and this

www.airspacedesigns.com/mdjobadze/ex4.JPG

[.soulty]

:huh:there must be something wrong with your black in photoshop... the file you gave me came up black and white, no purple.let me look into it and see if i can dig something up.

[.soulty]

go to your colour settings and click on advanced mode, can you make a screenshot of that and post it?

[mdjstudios]

here u go.

[mdjstudios]

HELL YES! i finally found some ppl who fixed it. thx guys for trying to help me but i solved the problem. http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@251.AbrMcFbprAc.605320@.3bb3c91c/5 .. they told me to make a new adobe gamma profile and now its not FREAKING PURPLE!!! Wahahah im soo mother frickin happy! yayayaya jajajajaa

[.soulty]

cool.. :)

i was going to tell you to go to adobe forums, had a feeling it had to do with the gamma but just was not sure since the rest of your screen was fine. in any case keep on celebrating. hehe :P

[morse]

He AIMed me and i told him to call adobe... I was close...

Glad you fixed it :)

[mlk]

more on colors if ever you need:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=123320