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filters grayed out in photoshop 2018 cc

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February 24, 2018
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Why are so many choices grayed out in my cc 2018 Photoshop?

How do I paste text from another program?

2018 worked fine a few weeks ago why the changes

Correct answer JayLive510

In my case, this was the problem.

Changed it to 8 bit and was able to work with filters.

Rabbidgym

Participant

Some filters won't work in CMYK mode, so make sure you're in RGB Mode to access all filters.
Switch to RGB Mode by going into Image>Mode>RGB Color

I myself had the issue of greyed out filters in Photoshop, and this was the solution to unlocking all those awesome filters.
Have a great day man hope you're doing okay 2 years later.

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

I've heard that a fix should be in for this on the next PS update.

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johny56162857

Participant

This may be too simplistic but I had a similar issue when I selected "open in photoshop" when in Lightroom. The greyed out filters would occasionally happen. I found my issue was I had opened the crop window in Lightroom. By closing the window and reopening in Photoshop fixed it for me. I am a newbie in LR A suggested fix if I am correct is to throw a window "close edit" before opening photoshop would help

Daniel E Lane

Inspiring

Just close them both down, then open Photoshop up first (fully, not just to the splash screen), then open Lightroom, then you can do your exports and nothing will be greyed out like that.

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Moonshot

Inspiring

Another day another multiple uninstall and reinstall of PS just to get filters to work! I have tried everything suggested with the exception of moving to Bridge. That's probably next since the uninstall, clean, reinstall, uninstall, clean, reinstall routine is getting extremely old.

descender

Inspiring

Turns out this is A KNOWN BUG. For the time being, until they fix it with a future update, you need to open Photoshop, have it already open, before you try to take images into PS from LR. So my new workflow is to always open PS before I even open LR, and leave PS open for as long as I am using LR, such that any photos I want to edit in PS will work properly and have all filters and other options available.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

When Photoshop starts misbehaving, I go into Preferences and click on Reset Preferences On Quit.

Close & restart Photoshop.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

descender

Inspiring

Nancy's solution of resetting preferences worked for me for this same issue -- tonight, for no clear reason, almost none of the options on any of Photoshop's menus were available when I opened an image from Lightroom as a Smart Object for editing in PS. It was not like sometimes when I've accidentally deselected the smart-object layer, which can of course make filters unavailable. In this case practically all of PS's menus had all of their options grayed out. Resetting preferences on restart fixed this. I wonder what the cause really was.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Yes I have been opening images from LR. I sometimes have had to open PS first because the option to edit in PS was greyed out in LR but I have not paid attention to if there is an correlation with the greyed out filters in PS. I'll look at that going forward. Thank you.

Moonshot wrote
Yes I have been opening images from LR. I sometimes have had to open PS first because the option to edit in PS was greyed out in LR but I have not paid attention to if there is an correlation with the greyed out filters in PS. I'll look at that going forward. Thank you.

Known issues and workaround

There is a better workaround... Use Bridge.

I _LOVED_ this aerticle on PetaPixel this week. I am not the only regular poster to this forum who prefers a Bridge/Photoshop workflow to Lightroom. I bought LR2 the idea being that investing some dollars would give me the incentive to get into it, but I just don't like the interface, and I am too OCD to accept the limited features LR offers. I am convinced my Bridge/Photoshop workflow for a large batch, is as fast LR.

https://petapixel.com/2018/12/22/tired-of-lightroom-ditch-the-catalog-and-try-adobe-bridge/

Bridge also has an invaluable set of tools and features that speed up and streamline your workflow. I LOVE bridge, and HATE Lightroom.

Norman Sanders

Legend

From your description it would seem the Copy function may not have worked.

Can you paste it into another app -- Word, for example?

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ConnieFLAuthor

Participant

Yes, already checked to see if I could. 25 filters off in Edit. It is like

that across the program. The program as is is useless and I need a book

cover in two weeks. Adobe needs to something about this. It must be a

program issue with the last upgrade. I would be happy to go back to where

it was!

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:11 PM, norman.sanders <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

Norman Sanders

Legend

What is the file extension of the source element?

Is the type vector?

What is the file extension of the target file?

Before pasting, does the file open normally in Photoshop?

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ConnieFLAuthor

Participant

This is what I tried to do many times before.

I went into my bible program and copied text to paste in my adobe image. I

clicked on edit and the paste option was grayed out. I then attempted to

paste in a transparent layer and it would not let me paste.

I have done this on images for three years no problem.

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:17 AM, norman.sanders <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

Norman Sanders

Legend

Chances are you are working in 16 bit. Choose Image > Mode and change to 8 bit/channel and then check the filter selection

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ConnieFLAuthor

Participant

I was in 8bit. Edit selection completely greyed out. I have had CC for about five years and had no problem with any of the programs. It has been about a month since I was working in Photoshop. If this is not fixed the program does me no good.

Thanks for you suggestion.

Abambo

Community Expert

Other possibility for greyed out filters is editing text.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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