Why is the color wheel in black and white?

Why is my color wheel only showing black and white colors? How do I fix it?

Can you take a full screenshot of krita including layer docker and the status bar, so we can see what happened?

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It’s possible you’re not on a normal layer. Are you on a filter layer? if you’re not sure, give us a screenshot of your entire workspace, including the bottom status bar and have the layers docker in view.

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When your image is in grayscale color profile, grayscale is all the colors you get.

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Here’s the screenshot I took. Do you know what happened and how I can fix the issue?

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This is the bit depth and color space you are in, if you’d like to convert your current image into RGB, go to Image -> Convert Image Color Space and set your settings to this:

Then, to make sure you don’t make an image like this again, you can go to to File -> new and make sure it is set like this:

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