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

[Phoenix]

You just double click on the background layer and rename it, there's no need to "Click on IMAGE go to MODE"

[Seb]

This worked for me--

Click Image > Mode > RGB Color

If that is not the problem, try clicking on Layer > New > Layer From Background

Hope this helps!

[Kevy]

I burned my pics to a cd and then later tried to open them and re edit them but they are all locked and I cant do anything to them!!!!! I need help to unlock them and to figure out why this happened and how to prevent it from happening again! Please help!!

[Omar Farooq]

hello

click on the image you want to edit

1) press ctrl+a to select all of the image
2) press ctrl+x to cut the image
3) create a new psd file
4) press ctrl+v to paste the image in the new psd file
5) edit it as you like

:) hope i answered the question

Best Regards
Omar Farooq

[Rackley]

I had an enormous amount of trouble with this. None of the forums seemed to answer the question pertaining to my particular situation.

I had dragged a locked layer into another document. It *really* wanted to stay locked.
The solution for me was to convert the layer to a smart object and then rasterize it.

[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?

[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.

[Jester]

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

[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.

[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