Filters not working

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Wobbly
May 28, 2005
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I’m using Photoshop CS2 with several Nik Color Efex Pro filters installed. The thing is, the filters are only selectable when I’m working with jpegs. If I open a TIF image or a PSD file the filters are greyed out and cannot be selected.

Is this correct, or is there something wrong with my setup? Shouldn’t I be able to use them with any graphic format?

Just incase it’s my installation path, the plugins are installed in:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins\Nik Color Efex Pro\

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Tacit
May 28, 2005
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Wobbly wrote:

I’m using Photoshop CS2 with several Nik Color Efex Pro filters installed. The thing is, the filters are only selectable when I’m working with jpegs. If I open a TIF image or a PSD file the filters are greyed out and cannot be selected.

Is this correct, or is there something wrong with my setup? Shouldn’t I be able to use them with any graphic format?

The filter does not know and does not care what kind of file the image used to be. When it is open in Photoshop, it is not a TIFF or a JPEG or a Photoshop file at all any more–it is just a bunch of pixels in memory.

More likely, those TIFF files you have are different from the JPEG in some way. Maybe they are CMYK, not RGB. Maybe they are 16 bits per channel, not 8 bits per channel. Get them the same as the JPEG–same color mode, same color depth–and your filters will work.


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