sorry the other forum I frequent likes links . good to know, and edited my above message.

well here's what I see (just your simple pong )

I realize the difference isn't that important in this specific situation, but it was a bit more pronounced on another computer, and I don't want color issues popping up later on.

where am I putting the reset to white? I put it in a bunch of places but still seeing color differences. function love.draw() love.graphics.setColor(255,255,255) love.graphics.setColor(pc) love.graphics.line(paddle[2].x1, paddle[2].y1, paddle[2].x2, paddle[2].y2) love.graphics.setColor(255,255,255) ...

that's what I had before, but it doesn't seem to change at all. I think 255 is the default so I just took it off. decreasing it definitely makes a difference, but putting 255 and putting nothing seem to be equivalent.

is it normal on everyone else's computer? :/

I was only posting the relevant parts. My point is if I use images instead of the code above, everything's cool, but the code above produces washed out colors even though it should be the same as their image equivalents.

When I load images, everything seems ok, but when I tell love to draw images, they all seem washed out, like the alpha has been lowered or something. any idea why this might be happening?