P: Selection of colours mixed up in Hugh / Saturation

The issue regarding the HUD Color Picker has not been fixed in "Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.12.0 20261005.m.3700 e7185eb arm64"; are the staff aware of this problem, and is a fix planned?

I have managed to find a way to resolve this which may help.  Like many i have an HDR capable system, but it is always switched off at the OS level.  With photoshop or beta opened, at the OS level i switched HDR on....problem dissapears 100%, no more saturation or contrast issues.  Switch it back off at OS level, then it returns right in front of your eyes.  Hope that helps, be interesting to see how many this works for

Open a new document, Go to Ctrl+K preferences/general to change HUD color picker to Hue Wheel (medium).

Using brush tool hover over document and have the colour picker window in view F6 - then press shift+Alt+right click to bring up the HUD color picker and view these two side by side. They are no longer identical.

You should notice that the colour in the HUD picker is washed out and noticeably lighter than the actual colour palette window as you move to select new colors.

Change happened in the last two versions. I have been living with it as it still works, but is broken and showing the wrong values in the display. Thanks!

i see many suggestions that disabling the GPU seems to solve this issues around colour and contrast shifts, but the performance hit makes it understandly unusable for many ​@CShubert  ive noted though that changing the PS (or beta) shortcut to run in Windows 8 compatability mode does resolve the colour and contrast shifts.  The performance hit from doing this isnt as drastic as disabling the gpu altogether - but its still not great, so i wouldnt class it as any kind of workaround, but may be useful for the devs to know about.  Are they any closer to zeroing in on the problem​?

Thanks​​​​​​

The issue with the HUD color picker has not been fixed even in the beta version "Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.12.0 20260930.m.3694 a296bd6 arm64".

Is a fix for this issue planned?

HUD color picker in version 27.7 and earlier

HUD Color Picker in version 27.8 and later

https://community.adobe.com/questions%2D712/what%2Dhappened%2Dto%2Dmy%2Dhud%2Dcolor%2Dpicker%2Dafter%2Dthe%2Dlatest%2Dupgrade%2D1636919

I see that in the beta but not in the 27.9.1 release.
It was raised in the beta forum here : 

Dave

This one’s a proper mystery to me.  I wondered if it do this if set to Prominent Colors and returned to Default, but it showed the correct colors when I tested that.  I usually hate resorting to the nuclear option of resetting Preferences, as you might be missing the cause, but I think you might have to this time.  If you have not done that yet, I’d be interested in if anyone else can work out what is going on here.

OK, I’ve managed to break it.  I set the document to Index colours and selected Dominant Colors. Then returned it to RGB and set the Hue/Sat layer to Default and got this.  I can’t get it to return to the deault colors, but adding a new hue/sat layer has it all working again.

I’d be interested to see the image you are working on (so long as it is SFW)

That's not the correct order — the Hue/Saturation color dots should follow the standard hue spectrum in rainbow order: red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, back to red, with each hue appearing once (exactly like the Before/After gradient strip at the bottom of your own panel shows).

Since you're seeing doubled greens and pinks with yellow and blue missing — and you're on the Beta build — this looks like a UI bug in the Beta rather than a setting you changed.

Two things worth doing:

1. Go to Edit > Preferences > General, check "Reset Preferences On Quit", and restart Photoshop. If the dots come back in the normal rainbow order, it was just a glitch in your local UI.

2. If they still look wrong after a reset, report it on the Photoshop Beta / Bug Reports board with your OS and GPU details — that's the fastest way to get it in front of the product team.

Either way, as you noted, it doesn't affect functionality — the Hue slider itself works off the correct hue order.

I noticed that there are two shades of green and two shades of pink, while yellow and blue are missing. The color order also differs from the color icons shown in the toolbar directly below the panel.  
I haven't changed any settings, this is the default state when I open the panel.
Is this supposed to look like this, or could this be a UI issue?
It doesn’t seem to affect functionality, but the inconsistent color layout is a little confusing. i use latest photoshop beta

Hi ​@JohnDG Photography this issue has been released.  It is either in the latest Ps Beta build or will be in the day or so.

Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.12.0 20260927.m.3691 5144a9c  arm64 (beta, PublicBeta)

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager