Screen looks like an x-ray

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Screen looks like an x-ray

Hi our iMac (latest version) screen looks like the setting were changed. It appears to look like everything is an x-ray. Whites are black, Blues are brown, and Blacks are white just all together weired. Does anyone know how to get it back to normal?? I have tried going to apearances and themes but everything is the same as normal.

Please comment!! Any thoughts are appriciated!

MacBook Pro, iMac., Mac OS X (10.6.6), Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM 250 HD, Intel i5 3.6 GHz quad 6GB RAM 500 HD

Posted on Feb 21, 2011 8:02 AM

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Answer 1

captfred

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Feb 21, 2011 8:09 AM in response to lawest

lawest,

Hold down CMD-OPTION-CONTROL and hit 8.

Regards,
Captfred

Edit: The long explanation is in System Preferences > Universal Access > seeing tab > display > Black on white rather than white on black.

You probably hit the shortcut keys to get it there initially.

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Answer 2

Feb 21, 2011 8:12 AM in response to lawest

You've accidentally triggered a Universal Access feature in OS X. As mentioned, use the key combination above to Turn it off. Some people find a high contrast screen like this easier to work with, but I'm guessing you won't! More info here

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3488?viewlocale=en_US

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lawest Author

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Feb 21, 2011 8:16 AM in response to captfred

Thank You very much!! Our kids got on it and somehow managed to switch it.

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