A while back I was messing around with a graphic design project and happened to indefinitely screw up my color settings in Photoshop. I have no idea what I did but I thought, hey, I can live with this. Until I spent two hours trying to fix the color on an organization flyer. I’ve searched everywhere on the internet, tried dozens of color settings but nothing works. The problem is that all of my colors are desaturated in PS. I’ll design something with the desaturated color pallete but when I export a flattened image, the entire image has brightened. All of the highlights go crazy. My browns turn to pinks. The maroons turn into neon reds. The jungle green turns into a bright shade of puke. I’ve never seen anything like it. Here’s an example in CMYK (US Sheetfed Coated v2):

Here’s what the color SHOULD look like (and what it looks like while I’m designing it, even though it’s a desaturated color pallete):

The Good Photoshop Color

Here’s what the color ACTUALLY looks like, after it’s been exported to a flattened JPEG:

pscolorbad.jpg

That last image is kind of what I was going for — you can see I actually had to desaturate the colors pretty badly in Photoshop to get it to turn out right in the end. So i’m pretty much working as if I had some weird kind of color blindness.