auto align and auto blend layers greyed out

[philipp77727086]

Using photoshop 2020. I want to do a focus stack. My 4 images are jpegs and dropped into photoshop from Finder. I select the layers but the options to align and blend are greyed out. According to the online guide i'm doing the right things, I think.???

[JJMack]

You need to have a layered document.  Try stacking your image use the script load file into a stack to stack you images into a stack of layers.

 

[philipp77727086]

Thanks. I'll do this next time I have to make a file up. My problem started when I tried to load the 4 images directly from Lightroom (cloud version) into photoshop. There doesn't seem to be the command "open as layers in photoshop" which is (or at least was, I haven't checked) there in lightroom classic.

[Chuck Uebele · Accepted solution]

If you dropped them into Photoshop, they most likely were converted to smart object, which can't be aligned or blended. Rasterize the layers to normal pixel layers.

[philipp77727086]

Thanks Chuck. That was indeed the problem. I actually used the command "convert to layers".

Phil