Brush/Masks terrible bugs in Photoshop 2027 v28.0

macOS Golden Gate 27.2.1

Photoshop 2027 v28.0

Bug 1: Foreground and Background Colors won’t switch to black/white automatically when a mask is selected.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open any image
2. Click the foreground color and pick any color other than white or black
3. Create a mask for the layer
4. The mask is selected, and the foreground/background colors should be automatically set to black/white. But this doesn’t happen.

Workaround: Press D once.

Bug 2: You can only paint black on a mask, no matter what the foreground color is.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open any image
2. Create a Curves adjustment layer
3. Make some adjustments with a curve
4. ⌘+G to put the Curves adjustment layer in a group
5. Click on the mask
6. Press D to set the foreground color to black
7. Paint on the mask. Sometimes it works, sometimes you are unable to paint at all.
8. If it works, press X to switch the foreground color to white, then paint on the mask.
9. You are still painting black

Simpler way to reproduce:

1. Open any image
2. Create a mask for the layer
3. ⌘+G to put the Curves adjustment layer in a group
4. You can only paint black

You can also try with an inverted mask.

Workaround: Hold alt and click on the mask to disable it, then re-enable it.

Important Notes:

• I believe these 2 bugs are related. When editing masks, my foreground/background colors will suddenly change to random grayscale colors. But I have yet to find a way to reproduce it.
• Bug 2 only happens when you put the adjustment layer in a group (just like the HSL bug).