greyed out filters

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Roy Stannard
Oct 9, 2004
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Hi all,
I find on opening a file in Photoshop and filling with colour that most filters are greyed out, except Blur, Noise, Sharpen, Stylize and Other . Even after adding noise, the others still remain greyed out. How can they be accessed? Any help much appreciated

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Mike Russell
Oct 9, 2004
Roy Stannard wrote:
Hi all,
I find on opening a file in Photoshop and filling with colour that most filters are greyed out, except Blur, Noise, Sharpen, Stylize and Other . Even after adding noise, the others still remain greyed out. How can they be accessed? Any help much appreciated

The most likely reason is that your image is in 16 bit mode, and you are using version 7 or earlier.
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edjh
Oct 10, 2004
Roy Stannard wrote:

Hi all,
I find on opening a file in Photoshop and filling with colour that most filters are greyed out, except Blur, Noise, Sharpen, Stylize and Other . Even after adding noise, the others still remain greyed out. How can they be accessed? Any help much appreciated
Your files are most likely CMYK or 16 bit per channel.

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Roy Stannard
Oct 10, 2004
16 bits was the problem,

thanks to you both 🙂
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tacitr
Oct 10, 2004
Your files are most likely CMYK or 16 bit per channel.

Almost every filter (save for the "artistic" filters) will work in CMYK.

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