2 Replies Latest reply: Jan 2, 2009 9:10 AM by (Terry_Davies) RSS

    In Elements 5 I can no longer drop down menu for Blending modes

    terryd1 Community Member
      Hi

      Something has broken my Elements 5 or is it me? I load a Jpeg make a copy, click on copy layer the blending mode writing goes from greyed out to normal. If I now click on the blending mode menu to drop it down or darken it so I can use the up/down keys to change modes nothing happens. I'm using Vista all updated and Elements 5.0.2. Tried repairing it to no avail. Any Ideas? Cheers Terry
        • 1. Re: In Elements 5 I can no longer drop down menu for Blending modes
          Community Member
          Hmmm. Usually the first thing to try when PSE misbehaves is resetting
          preferences. Try pressing and holding ctrl-alt-shift while you start the
          editor. You should get a dialog asking if you want to delete the
          settings file. You do. If you don't get the dialog, you didn't quite
          time the key combination with starting the editor just right, so try again.

          -Trish
          • 2. Re: In Elements 5 I can no longer drop down menu for Blending modes
            Community Member
            Hi Trish, Thanks for your help. I tried what you said and it worked but if I then reload the program without pressing ctrl-alt-shift (so it now reads in the new Prefs file which it produced when it closed down) it's doesn't work again. I downloaded a trial of Elements 7 and that work OK and if I click on the Elements 5 prefs.psp Elements 7 loads and works OK as well. So I'm flommaxed as to what is happening. I reckon some update of Windows has broken it. Looks like I'll have to upgrade. Cheers Terry