Preserved Topic: Index

I am fairly inexperienced in PhotoShop 6.0. Sometimes when I open a graphic in PS, in the Layers Pallet, it is called Index rather than Background and I can't do anything with it. What gives and how do I avoid this? Thanks in advance.

havent got 6, but am guessing that the source file your opening when you get that happening is a 'gif' file, or 'indexed color'? maybe?.. if so change the mode of your DOC to RGB and ya should be all set... hope thathelps
~Vp~

Thanks, VP. Always thought you were a genius but now I know it. After fooling around with PS for a while, I am just getting up the nerve to try to do some real work with it so I am sure I will be back looking for solution to many problems. Thanks again.

oh christ.... don't swell his head anymore than it already is.....
we'll have to start moving people out of the Asylum....

Glad that helped woody, (it was a wild guess btw - heh).. genius?.. me?.. nah.. I am but a PS Midget compared to some of the artists around the Asylum.... I just enjoy dabblin and experimenting...

Welcome to the Asylum btw... *throws straight jacket (slightly worn) in your general direction... the nurse may be around with your medication shortly ~Vp~

you rang?

OH ! A new resident ! Welcome Woody ! Are you TransSocial? errr nm that's a different subject over there >>>>


Feel free to set up your cell and splash some color on the walls or whatev'ah. ToeMuncher is MIA this morning so be careful. Take your Black Pills and welcome to our illusion .... or is it?

~Leaves a trail of Black Pills as I head out looking for ToeMuncher~

"It's not bragging, if you can do it"

Oh no, Shii! Don't leave the pills layin' around! You know what happened to Billiam the last time...come ta think of it, no one is lookin'...*munch, swallow, gulp...wheeee! Oh, the colors, the colors...* Oh, yeah...uhhh, what? Uhhhmmm...welcome Woody? Yeah, that's right. Ohhhh, these pills...who are you, again? Oh, yeah, right.