Color Picker just stopped working - always white

[rokkerr]

Was working fine this morning, I have no idea what I could have done to create this problem? Now when I mouse over my image, the color picker does change to an eyedropper, but no matter what part of the image I click on it shows white? #ffffff

The L: changes to 100, the a: changes to 0 and the b: changes to 0. It shows #ffffff no matter what. I can click on my desktop background and it changes to black. Other than that i can pick no other color but white? Anyone know what's happening? I'm trying to remove the yellowish/beigish hue from the pictures. The walls, curtains and couch were actually white.

[Chuck Uebele · Accepted solution]

You have your mask selected. It's picking from the white mask.

[rokkerr]

I'm following the directions exactly from this page? https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/photo-filter/

[rokkerr]

How would I deselect the mask? If I click back onto the background layer, (layer 0) then I don't have the photo filter available to me? Help! This was working yesterday according to the instructions and then it stopped.

[rokkerr]

sorry i hit enter too quick. I am on the Photo Filter adjustment layer. As per the instructions, you open a new adjustment layer, then choose photo filter.

[Chuck Uebele · Accepted solution]

Click on the camera icon of the photo filter so the mask isn't selected.

[rokkerr]

That was it! OMG! Why didn't I see that! I tried every other conceivable thing! Thank you thank you thank you!

[Aross0324]

This happened to me as well but this must be outdated. I finally figured out that I needed to go to my channels tab & get rid of the quick mask from there. Just thought I would share this for anyone else. It's 5 yrs since the original post was answered. 

Good Luck