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Sam Singleton
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April 29, 2025

P: Adjusting layer properties doesn't work for Hue/Saturation/lum. HSL layers

  • April 29, 2025
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The tab to click on and change the properties for an adjustment layer randomly disappears. Quitting and re-opening the app solves the issue, but it will happen again within minutes, usually when switching between different projects or different app on the computer. 

On Photoshop v26.6 - Mac Mini M4 pro, 32gb ram, 1tb ssd.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

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    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    D FosseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 28, 2026

    Sounds like corrupt preferences. Resetting preferences returns the application to clean, out-of-the-box factory state.

     

    Corrupt preferences can cause erratic behavior that usually looks like application bugs. Preferences are vulnerable to corruption because they are rewritten on every application exit.

    Chris 486
    Community Expert
    Chris 486Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 28, 2026

    adding on to ​@D Fosse response, here are the adobe instructions to do that.

    Reset preferences

    Robert________
    Robert________
    Participating Frequently
    March 28, 2026

    Sometimes when I add a hue/saturation adjustment panel I am given a “mask” layer, instead of the H/S/L adjustment. I need to stop what I am doing and reset photoshop in order to get the adjustment panel. “Updating Photoshop” does not fix the problem. I’ve been dealing with this for months.

    Creative Director 1
    Creative Director 1
    Participant
    March 17, 2026

    Have to reboot photoshop EVRY time to get this to work. Ridiculous.

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    Roshan.A
    Participant
    March 13, 2026

    I’m having this issue in the latest version, I see that this post is 10 months old. How is this bug still active?

    AxelMatt
    Community Expert
    AxelMattCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 25, 2026

    As I see in your screenshot the properties panel shows the settings for a mask. What happened if you click on the mask and the back again?

    Try to create a new document and insert a hue/saturation layer. what happened?

    As a first try I would try to reset the preferences to the default settings and the try again.

     

    My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
    PixelDeluxe
    PixelDeluxe
    Known Participant
    February 25, 2026

    Unfortuately, when I click the mask and go back again the controls are not visible. I’ve had to setup then copy and paste an existing Hue/Sat layer and place it where I want in the layer stack - when it is placed, the Hue/Sat controls disappear.

    It’s been hit and miss whether this happens or not, it was happening on some PSD documents and not on others. I’ll try resetting the preferences if it keeps happening, but Adobe, this should not be happening at all.

    It seems as though Adobe have merged my thread with this one now, it’s the same issue.  ​@AxelMatt 

    PixelDeluxe
    PixelDeluxe
    Known Participant
    February 25, 2026

    I’m getting this in 27.4 on Windows 11 too.

      PixelDeluxe
      PixelDeluxe
      Known Participant
      February 25, 2026

      When a new Hue/Saturation layer is selected, the properties to adjust it don’t appear in the Properties panel. Using Photoshop version 27.4.

       

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      Michal G_1
      February 22, 2026

      Adobe, what's wrong with you? In this thread, you confirmed that you were able to reproduce this bug, but nothing happened, and the bug hasn't been fixed. The Hue/Saturation layer still can't be used.

      @Aleke  @CMass @Srishti Bali @Anshul_Saini ​@Sameer K ​@Srishti Bali 

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        Chris37411006chc0
        Participant
        February 20, 2026

        week 610 of waiting for anyone at adobe to acknowledge such a broken, vital tool, that requires hard reboots to fix, despite about 100 peope now giving them exact feedback on the issue. 

        still broken, to this day, when you merge a layer, this tool breaks. 

        this customer service is inexcuseable. 

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          jurajz14892039
          Participating Frequently
          February 6, 2026

          Now we have February 2026 and the issue still exists in version 27.3.0 on Windows. On a Hue/Saturation layer with a mask it only shows mask properties and no posibility to adjust the hue/sat sliders, and on a layer without mask, the property panel only shows the text “No properties”

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