Almost everything is greyed out!

[thomass81552456]

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!

[Eugene Tyson]

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

[thomass81552456]

Thanks for your quick reply!

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

[Guest]

Hi

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

[thomass81552456]

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

[Guest · Accepted solution]

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

[thomass81552456]

I just tried to open a RAW file directly and then it worked, but I did not have my Lightroom edit, just the RAW file.

[Eugene Tyson]

Try resetting your preferences.

Preferences in Photoshop

[thomass81552456]

EUGENE:

I tried the reset, but that did not work.

GED:

Seems to work now with the homescreen disabled.

Thank you guys for the fast replies and for your help.

Just as a sidenote: When I use Lighroom and change from library to develop, the picture I want to work on turns black. Then I have use the before/after setting, to be able to see the picture I am working on. And after a while even that turns black. Is that my computer behaving badly or is there a reported problem about this?

[KR Seals]

If your search the LR CC Classic forum for "Black Screen In Develop" you will find some previous threads.