Some blending modes are unavailable

I have Photoshop CC 2014 and after I've updated it (a few days ago) I'm now unable to use certain blending modes. I can use 'Normal', 'Dissolve', 'Darken' 'Multiply' and 'Screen' but nothing else. The others are un-clickable. Does anyone know what I've done and can they tell me how to fix it?

Sometimes corrupt preferences can be a common cause.
If you need a quick and dirty way to restore your preferences, here's a way you can do it using a keyboard shortcut on launch:
Windows - CTRL-SHIFT-ALT immediately after you double-click the PS icon.
Macintosh - CMD-SHIFT-OPTION immediately after you double-click the PS icon.

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such as your platform (Mac or Win),
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your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
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I've observed problems with some of the blend modes in Fireworks CS5 and CS6. Several are definitely broken—most likely a by-product of changes introduced in CS5, which attempted to match some of Photoshop's blend mode behaviors (for Hue, Saturation, Color and Luminosity).
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/bbowman_fwcs5.html
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Product name: Fireworks
Product Version: 11.1.0.205 (CS5.1)/12.0.0.236 (CS6)
Product Language: English
Your operating system: OS 10.6.8
******BUG******
Concise problem statement: Channel-based blend modes (Red, Green, and Blue) are broken in Fireworks CS6 and CS5.
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1. Set canvas to black.
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For more information about this bug, please see the following post: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1209542

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Maybe it would be useful to post some screen grabs, and ideally it would be great if you could post a copy of a PSD file that demonstrates the problem (i.e., looks different when opened in an older version of Photoshop than in Photoshop CS6).
EDIT: Looks like I was too late in answering; I was distracted after typing and before posting.
-Noel

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I have a photo from a photo shoot of a plane with no landing lights on. That is masked out and is layer 01.
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I adjust the color of the plane to look like it is taken at night. Looks perfect!
Then I take a separate photo taken directly into a shining light with all the wonderful natural golden auras and flares. I place the photo of the light over where the plane would have landing lights and put the photo of the light on SCREEN MODE.
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>We only deliver files that are idiot proof.
 
 That sounds like a flattened file to me....
 
 Can't the client use the eraser tool, convert color space, assign profile, paint with brush? If you lock the layer's transparency and pixels (leaving only move as an option), and then drop them in a group, you've made it pretty hard to f-up. If you want to be extra paranoid, embed a set of layer groups and lock those too. Then they've got two hoops to jump through. Or another iteration. Now three!
 
 
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Learning blending modes

I've learned most of what I know about PSE from a certain magazine from England. But in their step by step instructions, you are told to use this or that blending mode, but not why.
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http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/blend1/blend1.htm
The above is a set of tutorials that includes tables listing practical uses of blend modes for photographers.
His examples are done using photoshop but the blend modes are the same in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Layer masking is used to constrain the blend mode effects to portions of the photos. With elements, you will need to use an adjustment layer so you can hijack the mask. If you are just going to blend the image with itself, create a levels adjustment layer...leave it at the default setting and click ok to accept. Adjust the levels adjustment layer's blend mode and opacity if desired. This will act just as if you were working on a duplicate of the image...and you have a mask.
If blending two different images, use a clipping mask/group. Here's a link on info about using clipping masks/clipping groups...same thing different name.
http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/Photoshop_Elements/layers/layer_groups_clippi ng_masks/1_layer_groups_clipping_masks.htm
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http://www.northlite.net/ps/blend.htm
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/layer-blend-modes/
http://www.photoshoptut.com/photoshops-blend-modes/
http://www.psdtop.com/blog/basic/understanding-blending-modes/
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http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Techniques-Layer-Blend-Modes-Explained!-5,8,65a. html
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I have a logo that I want to layer on top of a background image that will together act as the header for the webpage.
The easy thing to do would be to create an image on photoshop layering the background image and the logo, with the logo blend effect, and then save and upload. Problem is that I want the background image to resize with the browser window - without resizing the logo.
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Mylenium

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Wade,
Not sure how you are arriving at that photoshop blending modes are read by Illustrator. I tested this in CS5 original release, but have not since, and only tested .psd format. Have they finally fixed this one of few things that Corel Draw can do, but Illustrator cannot?
From Photoshop:
See No Multiply in Illustrator. And anyhow what if a multilayered document with various blending modes, are you saying that Illustrator will honor all of them? Not sure why you are showing the transparency panel, did you possibly change the blending mode to multiply yourself, or do you have a method for getting this to work?

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I have Premiere Elements 13 and understand it supports blending modes (like Photoshop Elements)... but can't find anything in menus, etc. to get me started. How do I access this feature? I've searched every menu, pull-down, etc. and find nothing. I want to use "multiply" to try to darken a very bright scene. Thanks.
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GORDON
What computer operating system is your Premiere Elements 13 running on? Have you updated to the 13.1 Update from within an opened project? If not, please do so.
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Are FW blending modes preserved

I have a colored gradient bitmap image in "heat" mode over a
neutral black/gray image with white highlights, the latter of which
I want to stand out. In FW it looks great... Can I export these to
FL and expect the blending modes to remain intact?

Paevo Kelley wrote:
> I have a colored gradient bitmap image in "heat" mode
over a neutral
> black/gray image with white highlights, the latter of
which I want to stand
> out. In FW it looks great... Can I export these to FL
and expect the blending
> modes to remain intact?
>
I'm not sure about CS3, but as of Flash 8, these FW blend
modes were
supported:
Darken
Multiply
Lighten
Screen
Overlay
Hard light
Add
Subtract
Difference
Invert
Erase
I didn't hear much about the blend modes when CS3 came out,
so chances
are they are still the same. You can quickly check by Opening
Flash and
seeing if the mode you want is there. Generally, if the blend
modes
exists, it should work. Another option is to create a
flattened copy of
the blended image.
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