Almost everything is greyed out!

When I tried to start an action, I was greeted by an error message recently, saying that *Layer via Copy* is currently not available.

That was never an issue before.

I checked a bit closer and almost everything in Photoshop is greyed out. Especially Filters, layers and select are unusable.

How can I correct that?

Thanks for your help!

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Correct answer

The Photoshop version is 20.0.1 and yes it happens when I open it via Lightroom.

It's a known issue workaround is to open Photoshop first and then Lightroom or disable the Home Screen in preferences

Community Expert

Sometimes it's down to the colour mode - at the top if your colour mode is set to say "Bitmap"

Then a lot of features are grayed out.

Change to another colour mode by going to Image>Mode> and select grayscale

Participant

Thanks for your quick reply!

The only problem is, that MODE is greyed out as well.

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Anonymous

Hi

What version of Photoshop do you have and are you by any chance opening images from Lightroom

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