Hue/Saturation grayed out

Hi, I'm working on an image and when I go to Adjustments>Hue/Saturation practially the whole menu is grayed out and I don't know why. I have the layer selected and it has a cirlce on it. Any tips?
Thanks in advance-
Michele

Thanks, no, it was RGB mode... it's okay, I finished the project anyway so I'll just post again if it ever happens again. :-)

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Thanks for your help. I am trying to blend an image to a background as is illustrated in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSehcaWFBVM
Rather than using the overlay tool, the lady in the video suggests using the ‘hue and saturation’ option to blend the photo with the background. I get all the way to this step, but then the ‘hue and saturation’ option (and pretty much all of the options under image – adjustments are grayed out. The ‘modes’ for both the background and the photo are the same (RGB and 8bit). I have been at this for hours (>4) and I cannot get past this step. I would be extremely grateful for some help as to how I might ‘free up’ the adjustment options and have this photo look similar to that showed in the video.
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You'll get a lot more help in the Photoshop forum. This forum is for suite specific issues only.
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What version photoshop cs6 are you using?
Have you applied all the latest updates from within photoshop under Help>Updates?
Resetting the photoshop preferences might fix it as well:
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I have used an adjustment layer in CS5 and when it was first used I could adjust everything. Now most of the controls have grayed out and whilst I can slide the sliders I can not type figures in nor use the radio buttons! Why has it locked me out? It has happened on a few images and with both Colour Balance and Hue and Saturation Layers.
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Thanks for the suggestion but that has no effect on them being grayed out or not. When this problem occurs it does not matter if the Mask is highlighted OR the adjustment itself.
But thanks anyway.
I am currently without the issue on the above example having removed the problem by adding additional adjustment layers and removing them again. Even if I now select just the adjustment mask I can still access ALL adjustment controls without problem.
But it will occur again as it has done over the last few months on a random basis. Hopefully someone else has seen this occur and found a solution?

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Great! Glad to know you are on your way.
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I keep having this issue where my hue/saturation filter just quits working. I use that filter religiously so it has to be fixed each time it occurs. I've only had the Adobe CS3 for 3 months and I've had to resolve this 3 times now. Each time this has happend I've had to uninstall the entire CS3 design package and do a complete reinstall which takes almost 4 hours because my download uses the Adobe server. My product download was purchased online so I do not have a disk but rather files that I downloaded from Adobe with product serial numbers.
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Resetting your preferences is much faster than uninstalling/reinstalling, so if you haven't tried it, that would be what to do next, although it would be nice to figure out what the issue is.
To reset your preferences hold the Ctrl-Alt-Shift keys down (windows) or Ctrl-Option-Shift keys down (mac) as you start up Photoshop. You should get a message confirming whether you want to delete the preferences file. If resetting preferences fixes things, then you should try to remember what you've been doing, just prior to having the problem.
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...
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