Puppet Warp Tool Greyed Out / Unavailable Photoshop 2022 Build 23.3.1

[_willpearson]

Title says -- Trying to work on project and the puppet warp tool (and content aware fill) both are unavailable on layers that have content. Please advise. I have already enabled Use Graphics Processor in Preferences

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[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

The items puppet warp tool (and content aware fill) won't be available while in Transform mode.

Most likely you'll need to use the actual menu commands under Edit>Fill and Edit>Puppet Warp

[Lukas Engqvist]

What colour mode and bit depth are you working in? If you are in a multichannel, or in a locked layer you will not be able to pupet warp.

[Khayyom R.]

had same issue, the  top answwer from here helped.
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