Colors suddenly changed - red & blue turned gray

[manzicrow]

Hello all,

I must've hit the wrong keystroke, because suddenly my page, which has text and several images, has gone strange.

Red text -- and any portions of photos that have red or blue in them -- have turned gray or partly gray.

It's probably a simple fix, but I went back and hit "undo" as far back as I could, and no luck.

Anyone know what I might have done?

Thanks so much,

-S

PS: It's not set to Grayscale, but RGB. And no other colors are affected - not yellow, not a lighter red or blue or magenta or green - just the primary color range of red and blue. In a photo of a red jacket, a swath of the red has turned gray, but not the rest of the red jacket.

[Fletch45]

Try checking your Channels tab and see if all of the channels are highlighted. It may be that your red channel was somehow switched off.

[manzicrow]

Thank you, Fletch45​. Unfortunately, looks like they're all highlighted, so it must be a different issue.

[jane-e]

Hi,

Check your History panel. Have you gone into Quick Mask? If so, Q is the toggle to enter and exit.

If that's not it, show a screen shot of your Channels panel.

Jane

[manzicrow]

Thank you, Jane.

No quick mask, unfortunately. My Channels panel looks normal, I think?

[davescm · Accepted solution]

Hi

Go to the view menu. - Have you got "Gamut warning" checked. If so uncheck it.

Dave

[hengkigunawan]

This works for me. Thanks Dave.

[Sergio24589285saak]

May be you (like me) (and maybe many others!) hit Shift+Ctrl+Y.
I'm sure that's why I had the same problem... 

[merve.kosoglu]

This worked for me. I sometimes (very often lol) hit command+3 or 4 or something still not sure everything goes grey. And ctrl z doesnt work. It was driving me mad. You just gotta check back RGB box under the channels. Thanks!

[manzicrow]

In case it's helpful....

Example of affected dresses and affected text (they're two different layers).

[rob day]

Is Proof Colors checked? A Color Blindness Proof Setup might do that.

[manzicrow]

And it's davescm​ for the win!

Thanks for playing, everyone....

Seriously, thank you all so much. I was tearing my hair out. That was definitely a stray keystroke gone wrong (Shift+Ctrl+Y, it looks like).

Best,

S

[davescm]

You're welcome.

Feel free to set us more quiz questions in the future

Dave

[manzicrow]

Will do!