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P: Switching channels deselects curves point in Photoshop 27.5 on macOS

Forum|Forum|2 months ago
April 14, 2026
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Since updating to 27.5 yesterday I’m encountering a bug where when I switch between channels of a Curves adjustment layer the active point is deselected. This breaks flow and slows down the process of getting the color right, which for me typically involves bouncing back and forth between 2 or all 3 color channels (working in RGB) and making one or two point adjustments with the arrow keys.

To reproduce:

Make a new Curves layer
Add a point somewhere in the middle of each of the R, G, and B channels.
Press Opt + 3, 4, or 5 to switch between the channels.
Prior behavior: you would still have selected and active the same, nth point on the curve. So, if you were on the Red channel and had tweaked a point in the middle, then switched to Blue which you hadn’t touched yet, you’d have the 255,255 point active since it was the second point on the curve. Once all three channels had a point though, switching between them would keep the midpoint selected for tweaking with the arrow keys. Current behavior: the point is deselected, necessitating pressing + twice to re-select it. Quite a speed bump when you’re trying to go back and forth and do this 5–10 times.

I am using Photoshop 27.5.0 on MacOS 14.8.3 on an M1 Max MBP if it helps.

johng44721896

Community Expert

When moving from channel to channel on points that had previously been set, and now needing to using shift+plus to make the previously set point the active point is a hassle and time waster.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

I’m always impressed by the small usability workflows ingrained by years of daily use. It is what made Photoshop what it is.

Breaking them is a dealbreaker. I voted as well, even if I did not use it often.

robertw44482386

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Bumping this. We have asked for updates and recevied none. It isn’t clear if this was a bug or intended behaviour. It is a serious workflow impediment for many and any update would be appreciated. Especially answering the question aobut whether or not this is intended behaviour.

alexanderl16240166Author

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I can’t really fathom why this would be intended behavior. They’ve introduced a number of minor changes that aggravate me daily, such as \ being “show mask overlay” on every kind of layer except Hue Sat, where it’s now “See what it’d look like if you turned off this layer, which you could also just do with a different shortcut,” but at least those are at least sort of adding something. This doesn’t add anything. It must be a bug, just not one they can be bothered to fix since it doesn’t involve GenAI.

robertw44482386

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I think that in order to implement the newly designed panel they may have decided to sacrifice some features without realizing their importance, or simply overlooked it. This would not be the first time.

Allowing a mask channel to remain selected on any given layer while switching between layers was a behaviour that went away years ago and never was reinstated, and it STILL trips me up. Probably been 10 years.

robertw44482386

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This is utterly infuriating that it has not been addressed. Most response we’ve had from Adobe here is that they CAN reproduce it…..and yet still solicited system info from users (which effectively kills the thread here)….

...and yet nothing has been done about it and no acknowledgement that it is even on their radar.

As in, they know about it, they just don’t think it’s a priority.

I assure you Adobe, this is a HUGE issue for professional users, most of whom don’t have time to amplify its importace in this forum.

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Bruce at TRG

Known Participant

27.8 disappointingly does not fix this problem. Very disappointed.

YoussefIsmail

Participant

The curves layer adjustment in versions before 27.0 always had a thin line for the curve, and the grab points were small and unobtrusive. The Red, Green, and Blue channel curves also showed their colors once they were adjusted. Now all channel curves are black and clunky and if RGB and one or more channels are adjusted, they can not be differentiated. Is this a bug or was this intentional? If it was intentional then that was a big mistake. Please go back to the thin lines.

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Stewart34859288gql9

Participant

I’m very happy to see that this is not an unusual workflow and that Adobe is working on fixing this. Because for me, this is something I do on EVERY image I work on. And making me reselect my black (or whichever) point every time I switch channels is like having to step around broken glass while barefoot when I was used to running.