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Masking problem

Community Beginner ,
Jul 18, 2025 Jul 18, 2025

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.

GiovanniScreenshot 2025-07-18 alle 10.42.29.png

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Community Expert , Jul 25, 2025 Jul 25, 2025

@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.

2025-07-26 14_44_53-Camera Raw 17.4.1.jpg-

 

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 18, 2025 Jul 18, 2025

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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Community Beginner ,
Jul 18, 2025 Jul 18, 2025

 

 

 

@Sameer K , thanks for the reply. I've already tried resetting Camera Raw preferences, but it didn't solve the problem.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 18, 2025 Jul 18, 2025

@Giovanni22402547bgxm 

 

Are you using Camera Raw itself or the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop?

 

Jane

 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 18, 2025 Jul 18, 2025

@jane-e I'm using CR in Photoshop

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Community Expert ,
Jul 19, 2025 Jul 19, 2025
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I'm using CR in Photoshop

By @Giovanni22402547bgxm

 

As a filter for a layer? Please clarify.

Jane

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 19, 2025 Jul 19, 2025

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

Same problem in both cases anyway...

Giovanni

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Community Expert ,
Jul 25, 2025 Jul 25, 2025

@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.

2025-07-26 14_44_53-Camera Raw 17.4.1.jpg-

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 14.5.1, Photoshop 26.10, ACR 17.5, Lightroom 8.5, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 15.1.1 .
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Community Beginner ,
Jul 26, 2025 Jul 26, 2025
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@Rob_Cullen  finally....it was so simple 🙂 ...thank you so much!

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Enthusiast ,
Jul 18, 2025 Jul 18, 2025

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

 

 

Larry
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Community Beginner ,
Jul 19, 2025 Jul 19, 2025

@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.

 

 GiovanniScreenshot 2025-07-19 alle 11.15.11.png

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Community Expert ,
Jul 19, 2025 Jul 19, 2025

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

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Jul 19, 2025 Jul 19, 2025
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