How to make White, White ?

My Photo Editing skills and experience are minimal and specially for the purpose of Photo-Texturing 3D Geo-Models (geo-located) for Google Earth.
I have been doing this for 3 years. However, I have yet to figure out how to edit photos so that White looks White.
Instead, they almost always look Bluish White.
Can someone please share with me how to make White areas in Color photos, appear White ?
I will be forever grateful for this information, especially if I can receive it quickly.
Thanks in Advance.
SnowTiger61 (aka SnowTiger at Google Earth and Google Forums)

Make a test image In Elements with only a white background.  Verify that the background colour is the RGB values of 255,255,255.
If this looks Bluish white then you have a problem with your montior calibration, since 255,255,255 is as white as you can ever get.
You don't say how you calibrate your monitor, nor the colour space in which you are working.  There is only one way to accurately calibrate and profile a monitor and that's with a hardware device like an Eye-One Display 2, or Spyder.  This is not for printing accurately but for accurate on screen rendering.
Any other method is guess work.
Also keep in mind that to accurately rendere colours on screen needs a colour managed program.  Elements is, but others you are using may not be.  In which case the best colour space to use is sRGB.  However, once you get your screen to look right there is no guarantee that others will see the same colour unless they also calibrate their screens.
Colin

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