Photoshop picks only black or white

When I go to pick my colour, it will only be Black-white

Trapped in Grayscale

Synopsis:
I can't seem to any colors but grayscale?

TOPIC: . . .
Color
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Brandon from Canada, Ontario, using Photoshop 8.0, writes in with:

[Quote:] When I go to pick my colour, it will only be Black-white (including grays) How can I fix this? My only colours are grays, blacks, and whites, even when I select any other colour, red, blue, etc.

Reply:

Shaun replies:

It sounds like Photoshop is in grayscale mode.

Check your Colour preferences (Edit > Color Settings) and make sure all the Color Management Policies are "off". Open a new file (File > New), and set the mode to RGB or CMYK Color.

Click on OK. You can either use this file or close the window if you want - it doesn't matter.

The next time you create a file in Photoshop it should default to the last setting used.

Shaun Pearce
from LearnPhotoshopFast.com

Comments

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photoshop cs4 or cs5 go to edit, preferences, general, performance and make sure you are letting photoshop use a little bit more ram than the ideal range if not move the blue bar till you provide enough ram to use, this will resolve all kinds of software issues

[Mello urnan]

An other option. Don't change the background when you start. Make a new Layer and start from there. + don't make the background layer black basically.

[Nicolas]

Hello,

i have a serious issue with my photoshop cs4, I DID ALL THE ABOVE! but still when i try to paint something pink it turns it back to grey, i changed all the settings many times back to RGB but even on RGB it doesn't work.

Am i doing something wrong?

[Danny Webb]

Hi:

I'm working on a black & white photo in PS7 and I'm trying to make the Roses in her hand in color while the rest of the picture is still b/w. Can anyone walk me through this.....PLEASE.

Danny

[Rajesh]

You must be working with the color setting turned to grayscale

change to any other and it should work

[dc]

image/mode/then make sure its not on grayscale