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July 26, 2025
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Problem with generative fill

Generative fill seems to be unavailable on Photoshop. It's greyed out in the Edit menu and I can't use it from the contextual taskbar. 

justlearnskills
justlearnskillsCorrect answer
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July 27, 2025

@jshakoor did you not make a selection? Typically you need to have a selection made with one of Photoshop's selection tools to activate Generative Fill. If it's greyed out, it means Photoshop doesn't detect a valid selection

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c.pfaffenbichler
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July 28, 2025

If the previous posters should not have solved the issue already please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, Contextual Task Bar, …) visible. 

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jshakoorAuthor
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July 29, 2025

The problem has been resolved. 

I should have said that sooner. Sorry about that.

Thanks a lot. 

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Bojan Živković11378569
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July 27, 2025

Also check the bit depth—Gen Fill appears to be unavailable in 32-bit mode.

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justlearnskills
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Community Expert
July 27, 2025

@jshakoor did you not make a selection? Typically you need to have a selection made with one of Photoshop's selection tools to activate Generative Fill. If it's greyed out, it means Photoshop doesn't detect a valid selection

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jshakoorAuthor
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July 29, 2025

This seems to havesolved the problem. Generative Fill was enabled as soon as I made a selection.

Silly of me I should have known that!

Thank you very much.

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Legend
July 26, 2025

View your AI balance in your Creative cloud account.

 

 

 

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