Photoshop Filters dimmed

[tedrich]

I have Photoshop CS2, Windows XP version, and I have several filters dimmed that used to be available in my previous CS version. The filters are present in my plug-in folder, and I even copied the dimmed ones over from my CS2 installation CD. The filters are dimmed out no matter what I do. There's nothing about this problem on Adobe's Web site. I really need my 3D Transform filter to work, and I'm stuck. Help!

[tedrich]

You can only use the more sophisticated render plugins, such as light source, and 3D transform if your source art is set to RGB /8-Bit. If your image is set to CMYK then the plugins will be dimmed out. I was working with a lot of CYMK art recently and my default was set to CMYK.

This information should be on the Adobe Knowledge Base but it isn't. It's a "stupid" kind of problem that is overlooked by the Photoshop documentation.