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Eyedropper not recognising all colours


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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with a problem I can't solve anywhere else.

I'm using Photoshop CS. I choose a colour from the colour picker, put it down with an opaque, flat brush, then use the eyedropper on that same patch of colour. Back in the picker, the values have changed from what I chose. The palette looks exactly the same, and I seem to be able to set colour values as I want them, but I'm not sure if the palette's recognising that.

I've tried reinstalling, and looking at every setting I can think of. They all seem to be normal: image mode RGB, and I was using a basic opaque brush in normal mode. I don't have any preferences set, and there appears to be plenty of space on the drive I installed it on. Any help much appreciated.
 
Check your display preferences, are they set to show only certain colors? No idea, if that's the problem but it sounds like you covered a lot of bases with your explanation of problem, maybe an example would help us to help you??????
 
Thanks -- unfortunately, from what I can see, the display preferences are normal. I assume that anything I altered by mistake would have been reset when I reinstalled the program.

Good idea about providing examples: mods, would it be okay to link offsite for these? I have some cropped screenshots, but I can't make them any smaller or the text becomes illegible.
 
I was just thinking do you have styles added to the image?that you are taking the sample from?
 
Sorry to be dense: what do you mean by 'styles'? If it's the Layers --> Layer Style option, I don't think I've fiddled with anything there. When I reinstalled the program I went straight to a basic default background layer to try out the palette problem again, and the same things happened.


ETA: It was recently suggested to me that the problem might be the result of HSB/HSV values being arranged in a cone (that is, those values can't match RGB values exactly. If I'm using RGB, those values don't change but the HSB ones appear to skip about).

Experiment for anyone feeling curious and/or bored: could you try recreating the steps I mentioned at the beginning of this thread, and see if the same thing happens for you? (I first noticed the problem with dark greyish-brown colours). If so, I'll know it's not something bizarre. Thanks!
 
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Thanks -- unfortunately, from what I can see, the display preferences are normal. I assume that anything I altered by mistake would have been reset when I reinstalled the program.

Good idea about providing examples: mods, would it be okay to link offsite for these? I have some cropped screenshots, but I can't make them any smaller or the text becomes illegible.
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