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Deviia
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January 19, 2017
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Why is photoshop colours not working?

  • January 19, 2017
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The colours in Photoshop is not working. Every time I try picking a colour from the swatches/make a colour or select it from the colour gradients it just gives me a grey scale colours. All the different colours, once picked just shows in different shades of grey. How do I fix this?

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      Correct answer Benjamin Root

      Go to Image > Mode > RGB

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      sukiii
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      December 6, 2020

      brilliant !!! 

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      DeviiaAuthor
      Participant
      March 9, 2017

      Image > Mode > RGB was the right fix. For some reason my photoshop was switching modes while I was working and this was throwing me off because I would start in RGB then somehow everything just changed to grey when I went to choose a colour.

      Thank you

        Theresa J
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        Theresa JCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        January 20, 2017

        It sounds like you have a layer mask selected or a single channel. Make sure you have the pixel part of a layer selected.

        The other possibility is that your document is grayscale or bitmap.

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          Denson25281485724i
          Participant
          July 17, 2022

          Thanks so much Theresa J it helped, it was grayscale selected. Now am enjoying.

          Benjamin Root
          Benjamin RootCorrect answer
          Legend
          January 19, 2017

          Go to Image > Mode > RGB

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            brettb65477647
            Participant
            January 28, 2020

            Thank you

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