Why is Photoshop only painting in black and white?

[Phoenix-Griffin]

I don't what happened but for some reason my Photoshop CC is only painting in black and white and none of the colours will show. I tried opening a new file but it does the same. For some reason it creates a channel called Gray and now nothing is colour. How do I fix this please?

[Chris Cox]

Your document is in grayscale mode, where only gray values are possible.

Change the mode to RGB, CMYK, or LAB to use color.

[Phoenix-Griffin]

How do I change it to RGB?

[Chris Cox]

Image->Mode->RGB

Or just create the document in RGB by setting the mode to RGB when you create the new document.

[jaimied338]

I switched it out of grayscale, but everything is still gray.

[SJRiegel]

When you say "everything" is still gray, are you referring to art that was already in the document, or to color options on your brushes?

[Finlay5EF1]

The same thing happened to me, and it is in the color options.

[Finlay5EF1 · Accepted solution]

nvm, i fixed it. It was because i was on a hue/saturation layer. Hope this helps