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vered_gf
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March 12, 2019
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Brushes painting in black and white in RGB mode

  • March 12, 2019
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I am using photoshop 20.0.4 on windows 7. Everything was working fine... but suddenly something changed and now the brushes are only painting in black and white.

The mode is RGB and I can fill images in colour. The brush mode is normal. The layer mode is normal too. I tried shutting down and opening photoshop again, tried a different colour profile and tried resetting the brush tool. Nothing has solved the issue... I have no idea what else I can do... I really would like not to uninstall if I don't have to.

If I use the Mixer brush tool it paints in colour...

Thanks,

Vered

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Correct answer melissapiccone

Try resetting your preferences.

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Michael Bullo
Community Expert
Michael BulloCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 12, 2019

Are you possibly targeting a layer mask thumbnail instead of the layer thumbnail within the Layers panel?

    melissapiccone
    Community Expert
    melissapicconeCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    March 12, 2019

    Try resetting your preferences.

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      vered_gfAuthor
      Participant
      March 14, 2019

      I did that just before I saw the answer and this did help - thanks :-D

      Akash Sharma
      Akash Sharma
      Legend
      March 12, 2019

      Hi Vered,

      Sorry that you're brushes are painting in B&W.

      Your document is in grayscale mode, where only gray values are possible.

      Change the mode to RGB, CMYK, or LAB to use color from Image->Mode->RGB or just create the document in RGB by setting the mode to RGB when you create the new document.

      Let us know how it goes.

      Thanks,

      Akash

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      vered_gfAuthor
      Participant
      March 14, 2019

      As I pointed out - my issue was in RGB mode.... your answer isn't correct but thanks for trying to help. In the end resetting preferences resolved the issue but I have no idea what caused it.

      iuyuyhuiipo
      iuyuyhuiipo
      Participant
      October 18, 2019

      make sure the brush mode on the top left is set to normal!!!

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