in CS6 my distort filter option is greyed out?

[joecos55]

I am rather new to Photoshop I have CS6 thrugh the Creative cloud on an Imac with os 10.7.4, I wanted to try the polar coordinate filter in the distort filter option, but when I click on the filter tab the distort filter is greyed out and I can not open it?

Need help turning that option on

Thank you

Joe Cosentino

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

What Color Mode and Bit Depth is the image in question?

Could you please post a screenshot with the pertinent Panels visible?

[joecos55]

the bit depth was the issue, it was 16 I changed it to 8 and everything is working.  I guess my next question is why won't the features work at higher bit depth channels, since 8,16 and 32 are offered.  I may have to do some more research on this topic.

Thankj you for responding

Joe

[conroy]

Many of Photoshop's filters are about 20 years old and in dire need of being updated/replaced with ones which work with bit-depths greater than 8.