Menus Greyed Out in Photoshop.

Hi,

I am very new to photoshop but I notice that a lot of the menus within the filter drop down are greyed out.

I have been trying to do the following tutorial:

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/diamonds/diamonds.htm

But Filter / Render / Clouds, the Clouds is greyed out.

On Filter / Distort / Glass, the Distort is greyed out, I cannot even see Glass.

Have I set up my version incorrectly or something as I cannot access more than 50% of the filters that are available.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Neil

 

Thanks for that,

Changed to RGB and then 8 bit and all now available.

Thanks again.

 

Thanks Bobby for your comments, much appreciated. What I intend to do, is convert the image back to CMYK before printing.

At present I am trying to find my feet as I only recently purchased Photoshop, I have been mainly in the cut vinyl sign business, but invested in a 54" printer / cutter for a specific job, then I wanted to progress further and purchased Illustrator / Photoshop CS2.

I recently did some work for a auto distributor here in Ireland using Photoshop and they were impressed, I even impressed myself. So I am trying other things now.

Thanks again for the comments, this board seems very helpful to newbies like myself.

Neil