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Phoenix-Griffin
Participating Frequently
Jan 6, 2015 9:59 PM UTC
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Why is Photoshop only painting in black and white?

I don't what happened but for some reason my Photoshop CC is only painting in black and white and none of the colours will show. I tried opening a new file but it does the same. For some reason it creates a channel called Gray and now nothing is colour. How do I fix this please?

Finlay5EF1Correct answer
Participant
Oct 14, 2020 9:25 PM UTC

The same thing happened to me, and it is in the color options.


nvm, i fixed it. It was because i was on a hue/saturation layer. Hope this helps

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Chris Cox
Chris Cox
Legend
Jan 6, 2015 10:06 PM UTC

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

Change the mode to RGB, CMYK, or LAB to use color.

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    Phoenix-GriffinAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    Jan 6, 2015 10:33 PM UTC

    How do I change it to RGB?

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    Chris Cox
    Chris Cox
    Legend
    Jan 6, 2015 11:29 PM UTC

    Image->Mode->RGB

    Or just create the document in RGB by setting the mode to RGB when you create the new document.

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