Strange Color Picker Panel

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May 29, 2026
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Does anyone know what’s going on here? I’ve never seen anything like it in all the years I’ve used PS. I’m guessing that resetting Preferences will fix it, but I’m putting that off in case someone might tell me, ‘Oh yeah. That’s the many worlds quantum cat in a box color picker.’ or some kind of rarely seen PS Easter Egg.

I did add the pre-2020 swatches from this YouTube video earlier today, so there’s a good chance that broke something.

davescm

Community Expert

One other thought - do you have ‘Precise color management for HDR display’ set in Technology Previews and are viewing on a display that is not HDR. If so, uncheck it.

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

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I reset Preferences which made no difference, but creating a new document fixed it. The document that was causing the issue was taken with Adobe Project Indigo on an iPhone 16 Pro Max and was a 16bit DNG file. dropping it to 8 bit made no difference.

It has the look of the Cutout Filter or Index color throttled down to four hue values. It’s interesting that it’s just the colors in the panel that are so restricted. Anyway. It’s all OK now, although not in the project I was working on.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Probably not relevant, but still: What is the image’s Color Space/ICC Profile?

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