My project has turned black and white in Photoshop

[milisaa93350435]

i'm working in Ps, a painting project, and now my whole project has turned black and white. all of my layers. I'm fairly sure I pressed something accidentally but I don't know what or how to fix it. help??

[gener7 · Accepted solution]

Press Cmd or Ctrl 2 and let me know if that worked.  Hold down the Ctrl key and press 2 for example.

Cmd = Mac

Ctrl   = PC

[milisaa93350435]

didn't do anything

[gener7]

Look at your document  tab at the top. What does it say in parenthesis? Mine would be (RGB/8)  for example.

[milisaa93350435]

it's still set at RGB/8.

[gener7]

Ok. That helps. Now open your History Panel  Windows > History and go back a step at a time until you get your color back. The step below it might explain what happened.

[milisaa93350435]

it doesn't show anything other than brushstrokes, and when I try to go back a step that's what it undoes- the brushstrokes. it doesn't fix the color.

[milisaa93350435 · Accepted solution]

I just figured it out. I had accidentally turned half of my layers invisible.... I don't know how I managed that by pressing one key but now i'm really embarrassed. thanks for your help though

[gener7]

You figured out. At least it wasn't non-reversable.

[KShinabery212]

Never be embarrassed...  Even pro users forget things or make mistakes.  It is better to ask then not too. 

[Merlin3]

I had this happen , and I knew what I did just before, I had hit ctrl 5 and not ctrl T as I wanted to do, 5 being above T on keyb'd,   history didnt have a step for it and also image mode still showed it as rgb !. Ctrl 2 turned it colour again.

what is Ctrl 5 for it to do this, and yet image mode is rgb, ?

what is ctrl 2 to fix it, like to know what actually happened.

Merlin

[gener7]

Ctrl 5 = Blue grayscale channel

Ctrl 2 = RGB composite or full color

[Mya5DEF]

it doesn't work 

[William24727551h2z9]

thank u!

[Mya5DEF]

well how'd you fix your problem? cmnd 2 won't work for me. it's staying black and white

[gener7]

Open a new post and attach a screenshot with tabs and panels visible. This thread is getting cluttered.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/how-do-i-take-a-screen-shot-from-photoshop/td-p/8867003?pag...

[SamiPau20224488]

You sure you did Command 2 (or Control 2)? It seems to work

[volkank28355767]

I had the same problem and this worked for me. Thanks !

[Gast]

Thanks dude. It worked

[dreamerxixi]

YAAAASS THANK YOU

[carolinerosebro]

THANK YOU!

[Candace Harris]

This worked for me! Thank you!

[defaultc6nym9mh1vzp]

God bless you, person. 

[Amanda5E0D]

OMG THANKS!! I do this all the time and I appreciate the quick fix

[G5EBC]

Oh my god you're the real MVP- I've been using photoshop for 15 years and had never accidentally hit Ctrl+4 before so I was MYSTIFYIED when this happened and undo wouldn't fix it. Thank you!!