Oh my gosh, I don't know what to do. I went to clean a mess of chocolate pudding off my 2 year old, and I came back and my new kitten was sitting on my keyboard. I don't know what combination of buttons were pushed, but now my entire monitor is displaying everything in the negative. Photos are negative, whites are blacks, colors reversed, etc. I tried restarting, no luck, I went to monitor display properties and clicked a few different calibrations, but it is still negative.

I've got so much freaking work to do tonight before I leave town tomorrow--can anybody help me, please please please?????

Can you tell I'm freaking out?

Edit--i'm on an iMac

Ctrl-Apple-Option-8

Oh Jeez, Matt, thank you thank you thank you!! I searched help for negative display, but couldn't find anything. Big sigh of relief!!

haha np!

For the record, I googled mac negative monitor

OSP looks freaky in negative, btw.

Here's the pudding mess. I took off her clothes to put her straight in the bath, ran in here to check the thread, and by the time I got back, she had managed to take off her diaper and pee on the floor. Good times!!!!


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You need to cook that cat for dinner or keep it chained to the radiator.

On second thought... you need to have that cat join the circus. THE AMAZING CAT THAT CAN PRESS CTL-APPLE-OPTION-8!!!!


I was afraid to try it until I saw your post Rich! Thanks for taking one for the team!

haha just for the hell of it I tried CTRL++SHIFT+8 and saw the negative, then did it to switch back. It went back but then both of my monitors kept refreshing every 5 seconds or so, and I would get an error sound.... friggin weird! I had to restart to get it to stop lol. No more CTRL++SHIFT+8 for me!

Teach your gifted kitten to edit while you're sleeping. You'll save a lot of time and energy :-)