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Weird color change in layer… never have I had such a weird glitch

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
February 8, 2023
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I'm hoping someone else has seen this. I was working in photoshop--I edit paper sculptures, so I had a layer for the sky that I made rather vibrant cyan. And in my workspace all looked well. I had many many layers. So I made a copy as a jpg and when I opened it up in photoshop, the cyan layer was almost fluorescent! And sure enough, even though in my workspace, the layer in my psd looked fine, I noticed the thumbnail in the layer window looked very bright. And when I closed the psd and reopened it, it was also fluorescent! Any ideas? Thank you.

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c.pfaffenbichler

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Please set the Status Bar to »Document Profile« and post meaningful screenshots.

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jessicalaurelkaneAuthor

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So sorry--but can you explain what you mean or how to change status bar? I'm a beginner here. And sadly I was so freaked out, I hurried and threw the layer away and fixed it before taking a screenshot.

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Christoph, I see lots of Mac people using Display P3 as a standard color space nowadays. In this incarnation it's a display profile, but the Photoshop variety, Image P3, is identical. Both are sRGB with P3 primaries.

I think this sounds like a GPU bug.

Given that P3 is a wide gamut color space, if this was broken color management it would dipslay desaturated if anything. But in most circumstances, on a Mac, it should just display roughly right.

But just to do it right, if this file is going to be used externally, convert to sRGB IEC61966-2.1. While P3 is widely used in the Mac community, it isn't outside it.

Just for diagnostic purposes, try to disable GPU in Photoshop preferences and see if things behave more normally. Then narrow it down by checking "deactivate native canvas" (reverting to legacy GPU code) and perhaps also try "older GPU mode".

Thank you. Everything is behaving normally now. I just wish I knew what might have happened. It was just with that one layer. I had messed with it a lot. It was very saturated cyan that turned ridiculously saturated. And I did notice that the thumbnail in the 'layers menu' was displaying the fluorescent color, but in the workspace, for whatever reason, it wasn't. Not until I reopened the file. Then the workspace was displaying the awful color properly. It was like I kept adjusting the color based on the workspace image but it only changed the appearance in the thumbnail. Have you ever heard of this happening? That the workspace image doesn't load?

davescm

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A jpeg is in RGB colour mode. When you saved the jpeg how did you do it (Save a Copy or Export)? Did you ensure that the jpeg was converted to an RGB profile such as sRGB and that the profile was embedded within the jpeg file?

Dave

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jessicalaurelkaneAuthor

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Thank you for commenting. Yes. I did. I save tons of jpgs everyday and never had this happen. And my images are all in RGB mode. But even the layer in my psd was altered when I closed it and opened it up again.

kglad

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in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post if it helps you get responses.

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jessicalaurelkaneAuthor

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Thank you so much! If you're able to move it for me, I would be so grateful! It's my first time here.

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