colors remain in grayscale image

[Kelli Jae Baeli]

I have tried everything i can think or, followed all the usual suggestions, and no matter what i do, i cannot remove all the color from certain images. This one is an Adobe stock image, and as you can see, there is still some pink in it, even though I've applied grayscale, and also tried tweaking other settings, saving it as another file type, etc.

This is the first time in many years I've had this issue. How do I get ALL the color from an image (leaving just tones of black, white, and gray?)

[Nancy OShea]

I don't see any pink.  Looks all grayscale to me.  See screenshot.

[Kelli Jae Baeli]

so it really is grayscale even though I see some pink? Are my eyes bad? Or is that pale pink in the gray scale?

[Bojan Živković]

To confirm color open or expand Color panel then just click with Eyedropper on color while watching Window > Color panel.

[D Fosse]

If a grayscale image appears with a color cast, your monitor profile is bad/defective/wrong.

That can happen for a number of reasons, all of them corrected by using a calibrator. If you don't have one, use sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for now. It won't be entirely accurate, but better than a broken profile.

Other applications without color management support won't use the monitor profile at all, and so be unaffected by a bad profile.