How to Unlock Background

Tatyana from Phoenix AZ, using Photoshop 7 with Windows EX, writes in with:

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I can't work with background because when I am opening first file ( layer) it is always background but locked .

I tried to copy a background to another layer but it locked too.

How I can unlock my background

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If you can provide a good answer to this question, then comment below. Thanks for your help!

(Someone said: double-click background in layers palette and re-name.)

Comments

[JJ]

Hi,

Just double click on the layer. A pop up should appear. You can rename it if you want. Then click OK.

Your layer should then be unlocked.

Hope that helps.
JJ

[MG]

You can drag the background layer down to the Create a New Layer button, and photoshop will create a new layer with the same image. You'll still have your original background image intact, so if you screw up you always have a place to go back to. or you can just delete the locked background layer.

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I tried to double click but one of my layers is an index how do I change this?????

[kkyy]

... anyone tell me why? i got the same problem as well...

[Ash]

If u want to change index into background just go to image>Convert it into RGB u will get your background

[Elena]

Clic on IMAGE go to MODE and select GRAY SCALE (if the PDF or JPG is black / white), and go back to the LAYER and double clic, that will unlocked, if do not, go back to IMAGE and select RGB color and double clic, that would do it.

[Habs]

"Clic on IMAGE go to MODE and select GRAY SCALE (if the PDF or JPG is black / white), and go back to the LAYER and double clic, that will unlocked, if do not, go back to IMAGE and select RGB color and double clic, that would do it."

thank you. you are a god

[Jester]

Hi All,

First off just want to wish you all a merry xmas.

I am pretty new to Adobe Photoshop cs3, i have a pdf file and have opened it up in Adobe Photoshop, is there a way i can get the photos from the pdf file so that i can use them on something else?

I know how to cut round the images, but there is some text overlapping some of the images, is there a way to cut round these images without having the text on them?

I can always email you the pdf file if needed so you know what i mean.

Thanks,

Jester.

[Jester]

sorry i didn't realise i posted it three times lol, sorry about that.

[Draco]

Every time i open a photo it is locked. i know how to unlock files. but i want to make it so the files i open don't lock automatically.
if you know how to fix this than please tell me how.

[kenneth Crew]

I you enter the above web site you will see a yellow background. I used to get it on my computer but by mistake I must have selected this in error how do I corrrect it?