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August 21, 2025
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Bug in Photoshop 26.10 – Mask painting only works with black, not white

  • August 21, 2025
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Since updating to Photoshop v26.10 I’ve encountered a severe bug with layer masks.

After using “Remove Background” (or when working with masks in general), painting with black on the mask works as expected (removes areas). However, painting with white does not restore any masked areas.

 

I’ve been working professionally with Photoshop and masks for years – this is not a workflow or settings issue (foreground/background colors, brush mode, opacity/flow, etc. have all been checked). The problem persists across files, even after restarting the Mac and testing on completely new documents.

This issue appeared only after updating to 26.10, so it seems to be a regression/bug introduced in this version.

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Ged_Traynor
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 21, 2025

@KreativWerk just tested on my system with Photoshop version 26.10 on Windows 11, and it's working as expected, have you tried manually resetting your Photoshop preferences
https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually
Remember to back up your settings before doing the preference reset
https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 21, 2025

@KreativWerk 

 

It might be a bug, but can you try resetting your swatches to the defaults by typing "D"?

 

Can you also post a screenshot that includes your options bar for the Brush tool and your Layers panel on the off-chance we might spot something?

 

Have you tried resetting preferences? If you do, you might want to do it manually by renaming the file so you can retrieve the original one if needed. Be sure to back up your preferences first. Details for backing up and resetting are here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

 

Jane

 

Ged_Traynor
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 21, 2025

@jane-e didn't see your reply before I posted