Photoshop masking not working

[Good Venture]

Hi, 

I'm having issues with masking any photo, object, text... literally anything. 

The brush I'm using to mask is set to 100% opacity, and blending mode to normal. 

Regardless of the settings or the kind of image, faded versions of the images stay there for no reason.

Any ideas why?

[Ged_Traynor]

@Good Venture just noticed the same issue on my system, Windows 10 with Photoshop version 25.5.1, resetting the preferences fixed it for me.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually
Remember to backup your settings before doing the preference reset
https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html

[Good Venture]

@Ged_Traynor thanks for the reply. Will give it a go!

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