Hue/saturation eyedropper not available

The eyedropper tool in the Hue/Saturation adjustment window (Photoshop CC) is grayed out and unavailable. What do I need to do to activate it?
Thanks!

Great! Glad to know you are on your way.
Gene

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I also notice That when I make a pattern of a single color, when I fill a selection with the pattern I get a rainbow of different colors.
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CS5: The command "Hue/Saturation" is not currently available.

I am running CS5 Extended on Win 7 on a Dell laptop. I was working with an action that worked great multiple times in the past week, and then started giving me this error last night.
I searched Photoshop Help, then the FAQ and sticky post for most common problems, plus the Knowledge Base for answers. Based on those, here is what I've tried so far:
Made sure I have the latest update for CS5.
Removed the preferences file.
Neither of these worked. I still get the error. I don't know if this matters, but the Hue and Saturation folder under AppData/Photoshop... is empty.
Any ideas?
TIA!

Is your image a color image? What do you see in the Image - Mode menu?
Do you have the image in an image layer active, and not a layer mask (which is, of course, not color) or have an adjustment layer active? Look at the LAYERS panel for this.
Please capture your screen at the point where you're seeing the problem and post it here if the above things do not lead to a solution.
Edit: JJMack beat me to the answer by 2 minutes.
-Noel

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I am using PS CC 2014, and the problem I am having is that when I want to use the eyedropper tool to adjust the colour range affected by a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, rather than selecting the colour in the Properties window for the adjustment layer, use of the eyedropper closes the properties window and changes the foreground colour in my palette.
Here's the real hitch... the same thing happened to me at school last night where a) the Mac's are older and b) CS6 is still used.
It's something with my user settings, to be sure, because the prof logged into his account on the Mac I was using in class to test it out, and it worked for him; we logged back into my account and it still did not work for mine.
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Good day!
What is "place" supposed to mean – open, place as Smart Object, …?
What are the image’s Color Mode and bit depth?
Could you please post a screenshot with the pertinent Panels visible?
Does Window > Adjustments not raise the Adjustments Panel?
Regards,
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1. So this is simply the wrong tool to change the color?
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0
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Once Hue/Sat sliders seem to be disabled, are they still way for all images that you open (a JPG for example), or are they just messed up for one image, but you need to work on that image so you have to fix things before doing anything else? Hue/Sat is not a valid operation for certain modes, like Grayscale, although the menu item is disabled in this case.
From: smk2008design
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:40 PM
To: Steve Sprengel
Subject: Re: My hue/saturation filter quits working in Photoshop CS3
The hue/saturation filter window does open and it is not grayed out. However, it does not allow me to do any thing to it. I try to slide the saturation to the left or right and it does not move. The same goes for the "Lightness" and "Hue". I don't understand why it will work for a month or so and then just quit. I end up rebooting my system to try and resolve but unfortunately once this occurs it seems to be stuck no matter what I do, that is until I unstall the entire program and reinstall...
So if I need to change something in my preferences, what do you suggest that would be? I appreciate your help, thank you.

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Today, while editing an 8-bit image, I added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Then, in the properties panel for this layer, with the on-image adjustment tool selected, I clicked a color in the image to get a range of colors whose saturation I wanted to adjust. Next, using the saturation slider in the properties panel, I increased the saturation of this range of colors. Finally, I closed the properties panel by clicking on the double arrow in the upper right corner.
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Ypu could also use the RGB drop down (actually they call it Master nowadays), and chose the colour that is closest to your previously picked colour. I expect you are away that you can edit the colour range being operated on by dragging the four sliders on the two colour bars at the bottom of the Properties panel.
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When creating a hue/saturation layer in Photoshop Elements 6, is it possible to have it act as a basic layer, adding and removing from the selection, rather than a mask layer?

The simple method is to place your selection on a separate layer and clip the hue/saturation mask to it.
In this example I selected the sky and pushed up the saturation to really exaggerate the blue color.
Click to view
1. Make your selection
2. Press Ctrl+J to place it on its own layer
3. Add new adjustment layer (hue/saturation) and click OK to close the dialog
4. Hover your mouse over the dividing line between the adjustment layer and selection layer whilst holding down the alt key. Click when you see two small connecting circle appear. A downward pointing arrow will appear to show the adjustment layer is clipped to the selection layer.
5. Double click the thumbnail icon on the adjustment layer (not the white mask thumbnail) and that will bring back the dialog box.
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