Bit of a long title, but that's what going on here. I think this has to do with when new colors were added to label layers with.
I am on Photoshop 25.6.0 on Windows 11.
Here's what I did:
- In the Layers panel, change the search to "Kind" to "Color".
- Change the color to search to "Fuchsia".
- It returns the correct layers.
- Switch to another open document and switch back.
- It will now be set to filter for "Gray" layers.
It seems the following colors to search get swapped out on switch:
- Seafom changes to Magenta
- Blue changes to Seafoam
- Indigo changes to Fuchsia
- Magenta changes to Violet
- Fucshia changes to Gray
- Violet changes to Blue
- Gray changes to Indigo
So if you start with filtering for Magenta and Tab between documents, it will cycle from Magenta > Violet > Blue > Seafoam > Magenta. This cannot be intentional. The colors not mentioned worked just fine.