Photoshop Tip: My Photoshop Color Picker Looks Strange, How Do I Fix It?

A question that comes up quite frequently in my Photoshop classes is “What’s wrong with my color picker? I’m not getting the usual palette of colors.” Or words to that effect. By default the Photoshop color picker looks like this:

Photoshop-Colour-Picker-Normal

However, you may find that one day, out of the blue, your color picker looks like this:

Photoshop-Colour-Picker-Weird

Or like this:

Photoshop-Colour-Picker-Weird-2

There is an easy fix. Inside the color picker, try clicking on the radio buttons H, S, B, R, G, B and you’ll see how the colour picker changes.

To get back to the default Photoshop color picker, simply click on H (which stands for Hue) you’ll find yourself with the old familiar picker.

Photoshop-Colour-Picker-Click on Hue

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Jennifer Farley

Jennifer Farley

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My name is Jennifer Farley. I'm an Irish author, illustrator, designer, and design educator. I've been teaching and working in the design field for over 20 years. I help people learn Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator and Graphic Design.

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