Color Picker not working correctly
I have been designing a couple of websites and logos, and having some very frustrating problems with colors. The colors displayed are frequently not the same as the colors I select in the color picker. This happens in two separate applications (Rapidweaver and Photoshop Elements 4), so I have no idea what is causing the problem. I thought they were two separate color pickers, but maybe they function on the same basis.
The color is correct in the little color picker box in Rapidweaver, but is translated wrong to the website preview. When I looked in the CSS that is generated, I found out that the wrong numbers are being put into the code. They are in general much more red than what I am picking (15-20 units different), which explains why a lot of my bluish and yellowish colors are looking dull. In Photoshop Elements 4, even web-safe colors aren't displayed correctly in the picker. Or to be precise, a few of them are correct but most of them are not, when I check with the DigitalColor Meter. The Mac fix-it guys tell me that my Digital Color Meter is reading correctly.
I spent $50 already having my video card tested, so the hardware is supposedly fine. The Mac fix-it guys don't know what's going on either. I ran Disc Utility and fixed whatever came up but it didn't help. Somebody suggested to me that it might be an OS X problem, which is interesting, because as far as I know, I don't have the problem when using Inkscape (or trying out Gimp) in X11. Then again, I haven't noticed the problem in Graphic Converter either, which is just in OS 10.5.6.
Has anybody seen anything like this before? What should I do?
The color is correct in the little color picker box in Rapidweaver, but is translated wrong to the website preview. When I looked in the CSS that is generated, I found out that the wrong numbers are being put into the code. They are in general much more red than what I am picking (15-20 units different), which explains why a lot of my bluish and yellowish colors are looking dull. In Photoshop Elements 4, even web-safe colors aren't displayed correctly in the picker. Or to be precise, a few of them are correct but most of them are not, when I check with the DigitalColor Meter. The Mac fix-it guys tell me that my Digital Color Meter is reading correctly.
I spent $50 already having my video card tested, so the hardware is supposedly fine. The Mac fix-it guys don't know what's going on either. I ran Disc Utility and fixed whatever came up but it didn't help. Somebody suggested to me that it might be an OS X problem, which is interesting, because as far as I know, I don't have the problem when using Inkscape (or trying out Gimp) in X11. Then again, I haven't noticed the problem in Graphic Converter either, which is just in OS 10.5.6.
Has anybody seen anything like this before? What should I do?
MacBook Pro 4,1, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
