CS3: Can’t paint on an image…but not locked?

I am just starting to learn Photoshop CS3. IN earlier photoshop versions, it was no problem to open an image and edit it with eyedropper and brush tool. Now I have this new CS3. I open any tiff or jpg image. cannot draw with brush tool. I notice it is the background image, and it shows it is locked. All options are grayed out, so cannot unlock! So I copied the image to a new Image1. It is not locked, no lock icon is shown. Try the same thing again , but brush tool does not work. So CS3 is not letting me edit an image whether locked or unlocked. How do I get it to work?

geronimo wrote:

I am just starting to learn Photoshop CS3. IN earlier photoshop versions, it was no problem to open an image and edit it with eyedropper and brush tool. Now I have this new CS3. I open any tiff or jpg image. cannot draw with brush tool. I notice it is the background image, and it shows it is locked. All options are grayed out, so cannot unlock! So I copied the image to a new Image1. It is not locked, no lock icon is shown. Try the same thing again , but brush tool does not work. So CS3 is not letting me edit an image whether locked or unlocked. How do I get it to work?

First thing to do is check the Brush settings in the Options Bar. Is Opacity set to 100? Is the Mode Normal?

If everything checks out, consider trashing/resetting Preferences. How to is in the Help file.

I don’t have it, but from what I’ve heard lots of things in CS3 are broken.

All preferences/options are at default. The opacity is set for 100%. Nothing will modify the image…including blur/smudge tools…no matter what type of image I load. It will however, let me make color/contrast adjustments to the whole pic.

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:45:00 GMT, Ed Hannigan
wrote:

geronimo wrote:

I am just starting to learn Photoshop CS3. IN earlier photoshop versions, it was no problem to open an image and edit it with eyedropper and brush tool. Now I have this new CS3. I open any tiff or jpg image. cannot draw with brush tool. I notice it is the background image, and it shows it is locked. All options are grayed out, so cannot unlock! So I copied the image to a new Image1. It is not locked, no lock icon is shown. Try the same thing again , but brush tool does not work. So CS3 is not letting me edit an image whether locked or unlocked. How do I get it to work?

First thing to do is check the Brush settings in the Options Bar. Is Opacity set to 100? Is the Mode Normal?

If everything checks out, consider trashing/resetting Preferences. How to is in the Help file.

I don’t have it, but from what I’ve heard lots of things in CS3 are broken.

I am just starting to learn Photoshop CS3. IN earlier photoshop versions, it was no problem to open an image and edit it with eyedropper and brush tool. Now I have this new CS3. I open any tiff or jpg image. cannot draw with brush tool. I notice it is the background image, and it shows it is locked. All options are grayed out, so cannot unlock! So I copied the image to a new Image1. It is not locked, no lock icon is shown. Try the same thing again , but brush tool does not work. So CS3 is not letting me edit an image whether locked or unlocked. How do I get it to work?

I am just starting to learn Photoshop CS3. IN earlier photoshop versions, it was no problem to open an image and edit it with eyedropper and brush tool. Now I have this new CS3. I open any tiff or jpg image. cannot draw with brush tool. I notice it is the background image, and it shows it is locked. All options are grayed out, so cannot unlock! So I copied the image to a new Image1. It is not locked, no lock icon is shown. Try the same thing again , but brush tool does not work. So CS3 is not letting me edit an image whether locked or unlocked. How do I get it to work?