Further.....someone already suggested Edit > Preferences > General // Performance Do you recognise these options? Will your suggestion take me a similar route but automatically reset all preferences? ... View more

Hi Dave thanks for that I'll try it Will it revert to default settings? ... View more

Hi Bob Thnx for that................I can right click the spot(s) and press enter but all that does is blur the whole image with no adjustment............as my version stands at the moment Vince ... View more

Ok.....sorry...got it....... Adobe Photoshop Version: 14.1 (14.1 20130831.r.401 2013/08/31:23:00:00) x64 Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1 System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:7, Stepping:10 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3 Physical processor count: 2 Processor speed: 3200 MHz Built-in memory: 4061 MB Free memory: 2113 MB Memory available to Photoshop: 3404 MB Memory used by Photoshop: 60 % Image tile size: 128K Image cache levels: 4 Display: 1 Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=768, right=1024 OpenGL Drawing: Enabled. OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected. OpenGL Drawing Mode: Basic OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: False. OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: False. 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BuildDate: BUILDDATETIME)   7.0.1.102    WRServices.dll   WRServices Mon Feb 25 2013 16:09:10   Build 0.19078   0.19078 Required plug-ins:    3D Studio 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Accented Edges 14.1    Adaptive Wide Angle 14.1    Angled Strokes 14.1    Average 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Bas Relief 14.1    BMP 14.1    Chalk & Charcoal 14.1    Charcoal 14.1    Chrome 14.1    Cineon 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Clouds 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Collada 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Color Halftone 14.1    Colored Pencil 14.1    CompuServe GIF 14.1    Conté Crayon 14.1    Craquelure 14.1    Crop and Straighten Photos 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 14.1    Crosshatch 14.1    Crystallize 14.1    Cutout 14.1    Dark Strokes 14.1    De-Interlace 14.1    Dicom 14.1    Difference Clouds 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Diffuse Glow 14.1    Displace 14.1    Dry Brush 14.1    Eazel Acquire 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Embed Watermark 4.0    Entropy 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Extrude 14.1    FastCore Routines 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Fibers 14.1    Film Grain 14.1    Filter Gallery 14.1    Flash 3D 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Fresco 14.1    Glass 14.1    Glowing Edges 14.1    Google Earth 4 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Grain 14.1    Graphic Pen 14.1    Halftone Pattern 14.1    HDRMergeUI 14.1    IFF Format 14.1    Ink Outlines 14.1    JPEG 2000 14.1    Kurtosis 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Lens Blur 14.1    Lens Correction 14.1    Lens Flare 14.1    Liquify 14.1    Matlab Operation 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Maximum 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Mean 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Measurement Core 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Median 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Mezzotint 14.1    Minimum 14.1 (14.1 x001)    MMXCore Routines 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Mosaic Tiles 14.1    Multiprocessor Support 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Neon Glow 14.1    Note Paper 14.1    NTSC Colors 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Ocean Ripple 14.1    Oil Paint 14.1    OpenEXR 14.1    Paint Daubs 14.1    Palette Knife 14.1    Patchwork 14.1    Paths to Illustrator 14.1    PCX 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Photocopy 14.1    Photoshop 3D Engine 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Photoshop Touch 14.0    Picture Package Filter 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Pinch 14.1    Pixar 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Plaster 14.1    Plastic Wrap 14.1    PNG 14.1    Pointillize 14.1    Polar Coordinates 14.1    Portable Bit Map 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Poster Edges 14.1    Radial Blur 14.1    Radiance 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Range 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Read Watermark 4.0    Reticulation 14.1    Ripple 14.1    Rough Pastels 14.1    Save for Web 14.1    ScriptingSupport 14.1    Shake Reduction 14.1    Shear 14.1    Skewness 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Smart Blur 14.1    Smudge Stick 14.1    Solarize 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Spatter 14.1    Spherize 14.1    Sponge 14.1    Sprayed Strokes 14.1    Stained Glass 14.1    Stamp 14.1    Standard Deviation 14.1 (14.1 x001)    STL 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Sumi-e 14.1    Summation 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Targa 14.1    Texturizer 14.1    Tiles 14.1    Torn Edges 14.1    Twirl 14.1    Underpainting 14.1    Vanishing Point 14.1    Variance 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Variations 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Viveza 2 2.1.21.12    Water Paper 14.1    Watercolor 14.1    Wave 14.1    Wavefront|OBJ 14.1 (14.1 x001)    WIA Support 14.1 (14.1 x001)    Wind 14.1    Wireless Bitmap 14.1 (14.1 x001)    ZigZag 14.1 Optional and third party plug-ins:    Analog Efex Pro 1.0.0.9    Analog Efex Pro 2 2.0.12.12    BackgroundFilter 2.2.21.12    Camera Raw 9.5    Camera Raw Filter 9.5    Color Efex Pro 4 4.3.24.12    Dfine 2 2.2.21.12    FineStructuresFilter 2.2.21.12    HDR Efex Pro 2 2.2.24.12    HotPixelsFilter 2.2.21.12    Merge to HDR Efex Pro 2 2.2.24.12    Nik Collection Selective Tool 2.1.28    ON1 Effects 10 10.5.2    ON1 Effects 10 10.5.2    ON1 Effects 10 Filter 10.5.2    ON1 Enhance 10 10.5.2    ON1 Enhance 10 10.5.2    ON1 Enhance 10 Filter 10.5.2    ON1 Portrait 10 10.5.2    ON1 Portrait 10 10.5.2    ON1 Portrait 10 Filter 10.5.2    ON1 Resize 10 10.5.2    ON1 Resize 10 Engine Automation 10.5.2    ON1 Resize 10 Engine Filter 10.5.2    ON1 Resize 10 Filter 10.5.2    ShadowsFilter 2.2.21.12    Sharpener Pro 3: (1) RAW Presharpener 3.1.21.12    Sharpener Pro 3: (2) Output Sharpener 3.1.21.12    Silver Efex Pro 2 2.2.24.12    SkinFilter 2.2.21.12    SkyFilter 2.2.21.12    StrongNoiseFilter 2.2.21.12 Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE Flash:    onOne    Adobe Exchange    Kuler Installed TWAIN devices: NONE ... 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Hi Jane Just tried exactly the same exercise with a .psd file ie Convert for Smart Filters, and Field Blur.......with exactly the same result and no slider adjuster. Is this a "mystery"????? Vince  ... View more

Hi 14.1 coz I am familiar with it and it does a job.......or did LOL Is this what you need?......Does it help at all? ... View more

PS Screen resolution 1024 x 768 ... View more

Hi (again) Dave My version is 14.1 x64 Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Sorry not sure about the screen size but do know that I don't miss any data that should displayed be on the screen. Sorry I can't tell you more.  I would add that I did have field blur working with a slide adjuster but seem to have "lost" it Thanks for bearing with me Vince ... View more

Hi Jane Thanks for your time. My version is 14.1 x64 Attached is a screen dump after "Convert for Smart Filters" then attempting "Field Blur". The image is blurred as this is the immediate effect of (my version) of field blur. Upon loading into Photoshop the (original) image is not blurred. I would add that I did have field blur working with a slide adjuster and on a JPEG. Meanwhile I shall try a .psd file. Vince ... View more

Hi mjbelt, Thanks for that but your screen dump confirms Dave's reply but my version is different (see my screen dump). I fear that I re(set) something and lost my slider????? Any further suggestion please Thanks for your time Vince  ... View more

Thanks for the reply to my problem. It would appear that my version of photoshop and yours are not the same. As I go into Field Blur this is what I get -: The image is blurred with no apparent way of adjusting the blur. The adjustment panel (top right) cannot be used at this stage but in any case the various icons will only adjust exposure, contrast, etc. Any further suggestions please? Thanks Vince ... View more