photoshop problem

[uksweetheart]

I bought a camera mag that gave tips on how to use photoshop the particular tip that I tried to use was for sharpening skin tones, here is what it said...
"open your image in photoshop and select Channels palette, click on the red channel,then click Load channel as selection then select and inverse" now here is where things strat to go wrong for me it then says "select Filter> Sharpen>Unsharp mask. When I go to Filter everything is greyed out so can't select anything, I went back to the inverse and clicked it again just to see if that would help but it didn't upto the filter part everything worked great and it does do normally when I'm just using photoshop as I usually do.. any help would be appreciated, thanks, Linda

[jtgraphics]

I'm not sure what it is your trying to do so its a little hard to help, the steps as explained don't make much sense to me at the moment, can you give a little more info on what your trying to do and did you leave out some steps above?
As a long time Photoshop user and someone who uses it daily at work I'm a little lost myself from the description above as to just what the final objective is can you explain more?

[uksweetheart]

jtgraphics said:

I'm not sure what it is your trying to do so its a little hard to help, the steps as explained don't make much sense to me at the moment, can you give a little more info on what your trying to do and did you leave out some steps above?
As a long time Photoshop user and someone who uses it daily at work I'm a little lost myself from the description above as to just what the final objective is can you explain more?

No, I didn't leave out any of the steps above, I wrote down exactly what it said in the mag and at the beginning of my post I said I what I wanted to do and that is "sharpening skin tones"

[Grimble Gromble]

Followed your instructions, but Filters are not greyed out.

Have you tried holding down the Shift, Control and Alt keys (for a PC) while you start the program? This clears any preferences you may have set which could be interferring with your procedure. Other than that, I have no idea what to suggest.
Grim

[Glenn]

Simply ask for help on the help tab. Then you can learn how to use the tools you want to perform.

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