To reset Photoshop settings, press and hold Alt+Control+Shift (Option+Command+Shift) and click on your usual photoshop shortcut.
I often also have my menus greyed out. The whole Image Menu, the all Type Menu (Top bar), etc are greyed out from top to bottom. Really don't know what's causing that annoying issue.
When the menus are grayed out, the first thing to check is the options bar. If you have entered a feature such as Type, Crop, Transform, etc., then you need to exit it with Accept or Cancel.
Thank you, but this is not helping me at all. First, I have no idea what the "options bar" is. I closed my image, and reopened it. Puppet Warp, and many other Edit options, are still grayed out. I've hit enter. I've saved. Nothing is working. Times like this, I really hate Photoshop. I need it to be accessible, and you should design it so we can figure out how to make it work. I am not satisfied.
Thank you, but this is not helping me at all. First, I have no idea what the "options bar" is.
The options bar is the context sensitive panel where you set options for the tools. When you are in Type Edit mode, Cropping, Puppet Warp, Transform, etc., the options bar is where you will find the checkbox to accept as well as the cancel button. If you have started a feature that requires you accept or cancel, then the menus will be gray out until you make a choice.
I have to delete my preferences file every day? And no, there is no operation happening. I'm trying to save my file that I just finished editing and I am unable to do so because all of my menus are greyed out. I can only get them to open by double clicking on the menu option and holding the second click. ONLY way to get the menus to display, but I still can't select any options. Keyboard shortcuts do not work either. This issue happens randomly and it is SO frustrating to finish a file only to find out that I can't save it. Then I have to delete my prefs, redo ALL of my work and then I can save as....
I'm not an idiot, the software has been buggy since the CS3.. that was the last solid release Adobe had... If there was a good alternative, trust me, I'd be using it.
Old topic but just suffered from this myself. What fixed the Move tool for me was clicking the three dots - Align To - Canvas (instead of Selection), all of the options work now. Hope this helps!
Still such a stupid and frustrating thing, no idea why it defaults to this and why it even exists.
Update: ah yes, so now I can either align to Canvas or to Selection and I need to go into the menu to change the stupid option every time I need a different align option, while on my other multi-artboard projects I can do both without changing anything. Nice!
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