Cats and macs dont mix
I made the mistake of getting up from my computer to go make a cup of tea, and I came back to find my cat sprawled across the keyboard. Normally, he doesn't do any damage, but today I found something wrong with my computer screen. Basically, it seems as if a sepia filter has put on my screen. Im not exactly sure if its called sepia, but its like if you screw around with a picture in photoshop, and you can put a setting on it that makes it look eerie and ghost-like. The colors are distorted, i.e. anything that was blue is now orange, anything that was orange is now blue, green is purple and whatnot, and everything else has an eerie white sheen. I have been on system preferences for over an hour trying to figure out what he could have done, but I have not come up with any solutions, and am now desperate. Any advice would be much appreciated.
It's called inverse colors, I actually had my computer set like that for a year when I was a kid because I thought it was cool. In System Preferences it is located under Universal Access on the Seeing tab at the bottom under Display. There you can select Black on White or White on Black, Grayscale, and adjust contrast, also displays the hot key. ⌃⌥⌘8 is the default hot key, I think I have mine set to ⌃⌥⌘, which you can change and turn off under Keyboard in System Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts tab and select Universal Access in the list.
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