problem with Saturation function - please help!

[pspuser1]

I have Corel Paintshop Pro 2021. Under Adjust, then Hue and Saturation, then Hue/Saturation/Lightness I often reduced the saturation of photos I was editing by using the slider on the left hand side. They could go from intense colors to greyscale and everything in between. Recently I moved the color wheel that's in the center, and ever since then the function has not just reduced overall color saturation, instead it has turned the photos different colors. I tried changing the setting to Defaults and Factory Defaults but I never got back to being able simply to move the photo from intense colors to greyscale and everything in between without giving preference to any one hue.

[Kathy_9]

That's very strange. When you reset the tool to default do your sliders and check boxes look like the ones below?

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If not, you could try resetting PSP to default. Here are the instructions in case you need them.

https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?t=67616

[LeviFiction]

As per Kathy_9's post there are two things I would check specifically.
1) Edit: dropdown. In the screenshot Kathy_9 posted you can see it's set to "Master". When "colorize" is unchecked you want this drop-down box to be set to "Master" anything else will target specific colors. Master targets the whole image and all of the colors in it.

2) Colorize: If this is checked then PSP will overwrite all color, saturation, and lightness values of all of the colors in the image. If it's unchecked then you can use the Edit: drop-down to target specific hues.

So either have Colorize checked before you use the saturation slider, or have the drop-down box set to Master before adjusting the saturation slider. Unless PSP is misbehaving and needs a reset, that should be all you need to do. If doing either of those two things doesn't fix the problem you do want to do a full factory reset as Kathy_9 pointed out.