Problems can occur if you have an older video card with limited video RAM or if you use other programs that use the GPU at the same time as Photoshop. The advantages of using a compatible video card with Photoshop are that you can experience better performance and a lot more fancy features. What’s important is that you know how to covert an image from 16 bit to 8 when you can’t edit in Photoshop Elements.Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS5 and CS6 use the GPU when the installed video card supports the OpenGL standard and has at least 512MB of video RAM. So PSE users, you aren’t missing out on a thing. However, most of us can’t tell the difference between a 16 bit image and an 8 bit. And if you are printing something that’s going to hang in the Smithsonian, this is a good thing. In theory, color representation in an image would be more precise using 16 bits. These files are so large that each edit you make takes several times longer than it normally would. However, I suspect that most full Photoshop users don’t edit in 16 bits. You might be wondering if a higher bit depth is a good thing. Make sure the bit depth here is 8 bits/component. Lightroom users, does this happen to you each time you try to edit an image from Lightroom in Elements? You need to change your external editing defaults in Lightroom. Go to the Image menu, select Mode, and and RGB and/or 8 Bits/Channel. Luckily for us, either of these issues is an easy fix. That’s why most of your editing options are greyed out. Once opened, you just can’t do much with these files. However, you can open 16 bit images in Elements. Note that Close Up, in the screen shot above, has a bit depth of 16, while the Portrait file has a bit depth of 8.Įlements only processes images in with a bit depth of 8. The more bits per pixel, the larger the file size, and the more detail your image has about color. Color bit depth is the number of bits used to express the color of each pixel in an image. The number after the / is the second thing to look for. If you see something other than RGB here, this is the first reason that your editing options might be unavailable.
In Elements, the color mode is usually RGB, but in full Photoshop you could see CMYK or Lab, among others. Finally, inside parentheses, you’ll see the Color Mode followed by a / and then a number. 14.4% means that I am viewing the photo at 14.4% of its full size.
Next, you’ll see the percentage amount of zooming for each photo. These are the tabs that appear at the top of the workspace for each photo that I’ve opened in Elements. So why are the options on my Layers panel greyed out? Perfectly normal, except that the subject has jealousy-inducing hair. Have you ever opened a photo into Photoshop Elements to find that you can’t use any tools or editing options? This is especially likely to happen to Lightroom users.
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