Masking problem

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July 18, 2025
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Hello everyone, I'm having a problem with the way masks work in Camera Raw: when I apply a mask, the colors appear completely distorted for the selected area, even though I haven't applied any adjustments yet... all the sliders seem to be going haywire. I've attached an example. Thanks for your help.

Giovanni

macOS

Correct answer Rob_Cullen

@jane-e via Filter menu or directly opening raw image with double click.

Same problem in both cases anyway...

Giovanni

@Giovanni22402547bgxm (Maybe not relevant) How have you set the option [Reset Sliders Automatically] at the very base of the Masking panels?

If left unchecked the sliders will always be how you left them last time used.

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Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

Moved to the Camera Raw forum, from the Photoshop forum.

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@Chuck Uebele 👍

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LAMY2017

Brainiac

Giovanni, are you concerned about the sky's color? It could be your mask overlay color.

Larry

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@LAMY2017 the problem isn't the color changing on masked area, so if you choose Show Overlay the colors changes.The fact is that the exposure, contrast, saturation and other sliders change immediately, without me doing anything.I'm attanching another example.Of course, everything works fine in Lightroom.Thanks for your support.

Giovanni

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey, @Giovanni22402547bgxm. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. We'll need more information to help you figure this out. Please share the system information from Photoshop Help > System info > Copy and paste into a text document > upload and attach here.

In Photoshop, press & hold the CMD OPT key, go to Photoshop > Preferences > Camera Raw Preferences, and select 'Yes' when prompted to reset Camera Raw preferences.

After this, restart Photoshop & check if the issue exists.

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
Sameer K

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