Filters missing Photoshop 17

[shelaghmillett]

This is my system information

Adobe Photoshop Version: 2017.1.1 20170425.r.252 2017/04/25:23:00:00 CL 1113967  x64

Number of Launches: 135

Version: 10 or greater

System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:4 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, HyperThreading

Physical processor count: 4

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 3691 MHz

Built-in memory: 24500 MB

Free memory: 2 MB

Memory available to Photoshop: 21961 MB

Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %

History Thumbnails: Enabled.

Touch Bar: Enabled.

Alias Layers: Disabled.

Modifier Palette: Enabled.

Highbeam: Enabled.

Image tile size: 1024K

Image cache levels: 4

Font Preview: Medium

TextComposer: Latin

Display: 1

When I try to access my filter gallery it tell ms could not complete the filter gallery command becasue the selected are is empty?

So where are they it used to work?

Shelagh

[Trevor.Dennis · Accepted solution]

Do you have this Preference option checked?

Some filters need the layer to have content in order to work.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please post meaningful some screenshots including all pertinent Panels.

[shelaghmillett]

Thank have sorted this now. Reinstalled re edited the preference file and now it’s fine

[Margaret9024]

I am using Photoshop CC and after following your instructions above my Filters are still missing.  I use Filter Forge.  the were there and OK before Adobe did an update.  Can you help me please