Photoshop Color selection not working

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October 9, 2020
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I cannot select a new color to paint with. I can coose a color but it always paints in gray tones. How do I fix this?

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rob day

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Could your brush, or the layer you are painting on have its blend Mode set to Luminosity?

JJMack

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Do you have a layer mask targeted they are grayscale channels you can only paint gray, black and white so only gray shades will be selected.

JJMack

Michael Bullo

Community Expert

Just expanding on what @JJMack has already suggested. Look for the corner highlights on the thumbnails within the Layers panel. In my example image, the mask, not the layer content, is targeted. In such a case, even if I had selected a colour, Photoshop would paint with the equivalent shade of grey on the mask.

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whynot38Author

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I don't have a layer mask. The original image or background layer is a black and white line drawing and I am trying to color it. The color setting is RGB and when I use the color wheel to select a color the forground and background colors are always in shades of gray. I will attempt to ge ta screen shot to share. I have never had this issue before. In fact if I set up a new project with a plain white background, the colors work fine.

c.pfaffenbichler

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Could you please post a screenshot with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible?

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

Make sure you document is in a color mode, like rgb, and not grayscale.

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