Please help! no color!

i just imported an image on to my photoshop 4.0, and im trying to color it, but everything is coming up as greyscale! i think this has happened before, but i dont know how to fix it.

rachel,
When you do repost, in addition to Ramón's points, be sure to include details of the steps you've taken and at what point everything turns to grays -- whether here for Photoshop, or in Photoshop Elements, if that is what you're using.
Thanks.
Neil

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Pictures are from a varied set of sources. Some from
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DSLRs don’t embed true ICC profiles but instead EXIF data. ICC aware applications don’t look for that. The files are probably in Adobe RGB (1998) as you say but might be untagged (meaning, there’s no true ICC profile embedded in the file). It’s easy enough to test.
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Not as far as ICC aware applications are concerned.
Photoshop says different.
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I've invested in a calibration tool (Spyder3 Elite system) and the difference before and after calibration was huge. The grays that showed up more as brown/green turned actually grey. I never thought that factory settings could be so poor - on a machine as expensive as this ;) but I've bumped Sony on that issue.
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Another thing is that I've overcompensated the pictures in PS to make them look better in PP - so changing to sRGB display solved the problem.
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