Fixing Colors in Photoshop?

i was using photoshop and my colors are dull now instead of bright colored, how do i fix that?

First check your color space and profile. Make sure they did not change.
Ex. if you were designing in RGB and changed to cmyk, you would see a color shift. If your profile was set to srgb and you set it to adobe rgbpro you would see a shift.
So for the color space goto your menu at Image>Mode>(mode type here)
You can also check the color space by looking at the tab at the top of your document. ex. untitled-1 @100% (CMYK/8) or untitled-1 @100% (RGB/16) CMYK and RGB are the color space and the 8 and 16 are the color depth per channel.
For the color profile - Edit>Color Settings. {The profile should not change unless you did so yourself or you ran a calibrator program for your monitor and/or printer.} This setting is saved with the file.

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