Photoshop CS4 Images displaying wrong

Everytime i open a image file in Photoshop CS4 it looks all jumbled and has diagnol lines going through it. Even when i open just a blank file it has a huge black triangle going through it.
How can i fix this?

CS4 needs a good video card and the latest drivers to work well. More details on what are you using would be helpful to narrow the problem down.

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Photoshop CS4 image displays incorrectly

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Open GL has little to do with 3D. The features include:
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Heads Up Display (HUD) color picker. See Choose a color while painting in Photoshop CS5 Help.
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Okay so I recently purchased cs4 to update from CS3 and I have installed it without problem. But when I open my images they appear in different shapes and most of them are barely visible due to a crosshatch pattern on them. I can't figure out what is wrong with them its not my computer because i never had a problem with CS3. Can someone help me I need this resolved ASAP.

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Lightroom v2.3
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A text overview of my settings from Photoshop;
WORKING SPACES
RGB - ProPhoto RGB
CMYK - Coated FOGRA27 (ISO 12647-2:2004)
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Spot - Dot Gain 15%
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RGB/CMYK/Gray - Preserve Embedded Profiles
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Intent - Perceptual
Yes to 'Use Blackpoint Compensation', 'Use Dither (8-bit/channel images)' and 'Compensate for Scene-referred Profiles'
ADVANCED CONTROLS
No to 'Desaturate Monitor Colours' and 'Blend RGB Colours Using Gamma'
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James

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Do you get a corruption warning or do they just appear corrupted?
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I ordered Photoshop CS4 for the wrong platform, what can I do?

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Why are you asking this in a HomeSite forum?
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Photoshop CS4 Image Processor Stopped Working

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…the problem was having the folder I wanted to process inside too many folders…
That must have been an ungodly degree of nesting.
The Image Processor is actually a plug-in script, written by Russell Brown. If you like it, you should try Dr. Brown's Services 2.0.2 (for CS4; for CS5 there's a later beta version available) by the same author and also free. It's like the Image Processor on steroids. I haven't used the latter for years, since installing Dr. Brown's Services.
http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html
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Photoshop CS4 - Saving file displays a Quicktime Preview Error

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I recently transferred my system from an iMac to a Macbook Pro (OS X 10.6.3). Everything seems to work except every time I now go to save a file in Photoshop (CS4) it displays a message: "Could not build a preview because of a problem with Quicktime"
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply. I also tried reinstalling Quicktime X from the install disk (using the Pacifist application), still did not fix. I did however find that setting the Save preview preferences then closing and re-starting Photoshop does sort of fix the problem. With the Macintosh preview disabled the message does not appear so yes I would say it's an OS problem.
Would still be nice to know if there is an actual fix, as yet I haven't seen the error in any other application.
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check for driver update and that Open GL 2.0 is not available and that GPU is turned off.
But I can work in the photoshop but a few things are slow and look is not that great.
So can anyone help with this? I can't seem to find anything regarding a solution for this on apple or adobe or anywhere. anyone have some help or ideas. Do I need to upgrade to OS to 10.5 or is it a driver. which I can't seem to find. Also I have run apple software update a number of times and it says everything is updated and good to go.
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Card, duo displays, 2.5Ghz - 10.4.11

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http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/GLInfo_1058.html

Photoshop CS4 and PowerPC G5 GeForce 6600

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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Card, duo displays, 2.5Ghz - 10.4.11

the 6600 wasn't an officially supported card which shipped with any mac.
but I liked mine in the G4 I had
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Running a browser test on my local location everything works perfectly and all of the images are accessible and work smoothly.
After uploading to my server, a number of galleries are not working correctly.
I have followed this scenario.......
All of the galleries seem to be functioning correctly except for Nature 4, Open 3, Open 4, and Creative 2.
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That accomplished nothing; things were the same.
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It seems to fail at the point where there are missing images. For example, Nature 4 fails to display thumbnails in image 11, which according to its group.xml is the same as the following 404 Not Found images.
/competitions/Gallerys/Nature%204/resources/images/thumb/GREAT%20BLUE%20HERON%20&%20CHICK%20by%20Rich%20Seeman.jpg
HTTP/1.x 404 Object Not Found
/competitions/Gallerys/Nature%204/resources/images/medium/GREAT%20BLUE%20HERON%20&%20CHICK%20by%20Rich%20Seeman.jpg
HTTP/1.x 404 Object Not Found
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HTTP/1.x 404 Object Not Found
/competitions/Gallerys/Open%203/resources/images/medium/03%20Birdhouse%20&%20Flowers%20by%20Veronica%20Anderton.jpg HTTP/1.x 404 Object Not Found
HTTP/1.x 404 Object Not Found
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Photoshop CS4 Menu toolbar display bug and fullscreen slowness...

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 I ESC'ed out, quit GarageBand (had a song project of several hundred MB going) and all was fixed.
 
 
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Images Appear Different When Viewed in Photoshop CS4 vs. LR 2.7

Hello, I hope someone on this forum can help.
I have a series of high quality images that are catalogued using Lightroom 2.7. Many were edited using Photoshop while others were edited in the "Develop" module of Lightroom. All of the images look exceptional in both Lightroom and Brdige. However, when I open some of the images in PS, either directly from Bridge or by using the "Edit in" command from Lightroom, they appear washed out and dull -- very different and much worse. I always use the setting, "Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments." The problem pertains to all images regardless of file format (JPEG, DNG, NEF, etc.) and regardless of whether they are opened from LR, Bridge or directly from the image using the "Open with" command in Windows.
This happens on two completely different set of monitors. At work I have a Dell 2208 WFPt UltraSharp monitor, and at home a dual monitor setup with an Asus VE278Q and an LG flat screen (all are flat screen, high quality monitors). I have a Lenovo X201s with 8gb of RAM and a high-speed i7 processor running Windows 7, 64-bit. All of my Adobe products are up-to-date. Windows Color Management shows all displays as "Generic PnP Monitor - Intel HD Graphics," and the Advanced mode of Intel's HD Graphics correctly identifies each monitor being used. The problem is identical regardless of which monitor is being used and it does not seem to make any difference as to which color profile is associated with the monitor (I have two profiles added -- Adobe RGB (1998) (the default) and sRGB IEC61966-2.1).
Specifically, if I double-click on a particular TIF image in Bridge (where the preview looks great), it then triggers Camera Raw 5.7 - TIF, where again the image looks terrific. The settings applied by Camera Raw are "ProPhotoRGB; 16 bit; 3607 by 2420 (8.7MP); 300 ppi" (although changing these settings makes no difference whatever when the image is subsequently opened in Photoshop). When the image is opened in Photoshop it looks terrible -- dull and washed out. I encounter the exact same problem when using my dual monitor setup at home, so I don't think monitor calibrations are the cause.
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I have the following key settings in Photoshop's "Color Settings":
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Edit in Adobe Photoshop CS4
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I have tried and tried to figure this out, to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Thanks, I think you're right.
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