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Jul 30, 2026 12:12 AM UTC
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Action now produces a bluish, washed-out image instead of improved tones. Worked recently but now fails. Photoshop 27.9.0 on M1 Ultra/macOS 26.5.2. First Action step alone causes issue. Manual Levels Auto corrects it. Auto Tone shows same fault. Tested PSD/PNG/JPG.

    Jeff Arola
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    Jul 30, 2026 1:50 PM UTC

    In the Levels or Curves Adjustment layer dialog, Option click on the Auto button, click on one of the choices other than Enhance Brightness and Contrast and confirm the settings for Target Colors and Clipping are not set wrong. Click on the color chips to bring up the color picker. The defaults are Shadows 0,0,0 RGB, Midtones 128,128,128 RGB and Highlights 255,255,255 RGB. (in the Levels or Curves dialog under Image>Adjustments click on the Options button)

     

     

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    Jul 30, 2026 4:54 PM UTC

    ​@jmshrrsn wrote: Action now produces a bluish, washed-out image instead of improved tones. Worked recently but now fails. Photoshop 27.9.0 ...

     

    Photoshop 27.9 is a Beta version. In the meantime a new version is available. Install version 27.10 and check again.

    If this doesn’t help you’d be better off posting on the Photoshop (Beta) | Adobe DME forum.

    This here is the forum for the released version. Actual is this version 27.8

     

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    davescm
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    Jul 31, 2026 10:18 AM UTC

    ​@AxelMatt 27.9.0 is the current release version, it was released earlier this week. The Beta is 27.10.

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    Jul 31, 2026 11:22 AM UTC

    ​@davescm  Thanks for the info, but I don’t see and heard anything about the release of Photoshop 27.9. I don’t see already any infos here in the forum.

    Therefore, for me is Photoshop 27.8 the current version.

    There should be a better communication!!!

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    Jeff Arola
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    Jul 30, 2026 1:50 PM UTC

    In the Levels or Curves Adjustment layer dialog, Option click on the Auto button, click on one of the choices other than Enhance Brightness and Contrast and confirm the settings for Target Colors and Clipping are not set wrong. Click on the color chips to bring up the color picker. The defaults are Shadows 0,0,0 RGB, Midtones 128,128,128 RGB and Highlights 255,255,255 RGB. (in the Levels or Curves dialog under Image>Adjustments click on the Options button)

     

     

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    jmshrrsnAuthor
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    Jul 31, 2026 9:31 AM UTC

    That’s it!  I thought it might have been this but just wasn’t looking properly.  I’d changed the defaults in the Curves adjustment layer, not thinking they’d be reflected in the Layers adjustment layer!  Thank you so much for being more beady-eyed than me!

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