Why is photoshop colours not working?

[Deviia]

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?

[Benjamin Root · Accepted solution]

Go to Image > Mode > RGB

[brettb65477647]

Thank you

[Wet252966759z6o]

Look at this sir... I can't get a color that is what I want... Mode is RGB.. It is ok... But problem is not fixed... Why is that sir? I am doing a assignment.. So, this is a really big trouble for me...

[Theresa J]

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.

[Denson25281485724i]

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

[Deviia]

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

[sukiii]

brilliant !!!