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photoshop cs - cannot fill selection w/ specific hex color

bc (6 pencils) | Wed, 2005-01-12 18:41
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Photoshop CS / Mac OSX 10.37 / G5

I'm not that learned about color profiles, so I don't mess with them. I understand they're valuable, but I generally go "default".

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I'm making countless 800 x 400 rgb "sketches" inhouse for my client. It's a small web project, but with a lot odf focus onn coolors I'm using.

Last week, I made a bunch of color sketches, where I drew many shapes, and filled them with "web smart" colors, (eg, 9911EE) which feature 3 sets of identical digits.

This week, I make some new 800 x 600 blank documents, draw a selection, go to the color palette, type in 9911EE, then option-delete (fill) the shape, use the info palette, and the color reads many digits off!! Visually, the color is close, but stilll..!

It's as though I'm not permitted to fill a selection with a specific hex color!!

I double-click the foreground color, am brought to the color palette, and my original 9911EE is still there.

I then open up a file from last week, where I had filled a shape with the 9911EE color. I copy that shape and paste it into the newer document (described above). I look at that shape's color in the info palette, and it correctly reads 9911EE!

So I can copy--and-paste the 9911EE color in this document, but cannot fill a selection with that same color. It's happening to any new file today, with other specific color choices.

I can still fill last week's file with the proper color.

Any ideas what makes these new documents different? Did another user change some setting?

Thanks!

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Ivan | Wed, 2005-01-12 19:53

that's very strange. is only web colors switched on in the color selector? is proof colors on? Apple-Y. no other ideas... :/

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Joshua | Wed, 2005-01-12 22:43

Is the fill set to Overlay or some other crazy setting?

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bc | Wed, 2005-01-12 23:02

Thanks for the ideas - i considered most of those. I believe it was that color management was on (I can't seem to locate it now - was it at the application level?), and I had read somewhere that in certain modes, color would take preference over numbers, and in another mode, numbers would rule.

Anyway, I turned it off - no color management - and it seems to be behaving.

Thanks for the quick ideas.

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JimD | Thu, 2005-01-13 13:54

CMYK vs. RGB perhaps?

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