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Hello people,

Im currently using Photoshop CS and im totally new new it!!! basically ive to start drawing some bits and pieces and everything is in grey! I have written some text, and when choose a colour from the pallette it still stays in grey!!

When i go to my channels tab, there is no RGB colour option anymore, it just says gray!!!

Please can someone tell me how to get some colour back!!! :confused:

Thanks alot
GR Web FX

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Good catch by — glad that helped . For others who run into a similar "everything looks greyscale" symptom, here are extra checks and tips that go beyond the original reply.

Start with quick, non-destructive checks: hide any adjustment layers (Black & White, Hue/Saturation, or a desaturate filter) and look at the top layer blend mode and opacity. Toggle layer visibility and solo the text layer to confirm its own color. Turn off any active proofing/view presets that simulate output. If the whole file still looks washed out, verify you are not viewing a flattened preview with an active selection or mask that forces luminosity-only rendering. Finally, remember that if a file was saved without color channels originally, the color data is gone; you will need the original color source to recover true color.

To avoid this happening again, save a New Document preset or template with the color/profile defaults you want, and keep an archive of originals before converting or flattening. If odd behavior persists across files, try updating GPU/display drivers or reset Photoshop preferences as a last resort. For official background on how Photoshop handles image modes and on creating document presets, see Adobe’s reference on image modes and on creating new documents: and .

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when you create a new document there is a selection "Color Mode" you probably have it set to "Grayscale" so make the drop down list come down and then select "RGB color" and that should do the trick

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FANTASTIC!! yeah that worked, thanks so much :)

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