I've got CS2. I'm working through this tutorial . I'm at the part where it says:


The image mode for bitmap is greyed out for me.

It appears that I'm stuck. Any solutions from the PSC Gurus?

did you to through the Grayscale? Make sure you're not in indexed color mode

make sure you're in Grayscale mode 8 bits per channel (at the bottom of the Image Mode menu), not 16

First document is RGB 8-bit. I duplicate the layer to a new document. New document is also RGB 8-bit.

So I then did the greyscale step. Works just as outlined. Next I do the bitmap and..

IT WORKED!

Vokaris you are my hero!

First time through I did indeed have it at 16-bit. Now the question as to why this doesn't work at 16-bit? Mainly a curiosity thing at this point.

this is straight from the horse's mouth (i.e. PS CS2 help - converting images to Bitmap mode)

Images in Bitmap mode are 1 bit per channel. You must convert a 16‑ or 32‑bits-per-channel image to 8‑bit Grayscale mode before converting it to Bitmap mode.

i've said in the past "most choppers only use 10% of photoshop" can i reduce that to 2% ?

every time i do a new tut i find things i never knew existed

I think I know about .0002% of Photoshop.

PS-tutorial for absolute beginners:

*OPEN* - have a short look and get afraid of all those buttons - *CLOSE*

the reason why you can't do it is cos you touch yourself at night

Ya see what i did there.. oh ok then...

What ya gotta do to change your image modes is...

go through greyscale...

bitmap mode has no colour

yes i knoww what your thinking why is that...

perhaps you should pray for an answer to that...

or maybe this will help

Pixel depth

A. 1-bit (Bitmap)
B. 8-bit (Grayscale)
C. 8-bit (Indexed Color)
D. 24-bit (RGB)

I was going to say that CS2 doesn't like you but seeing that you've found the way i will retract my opinion and walk away... awayyyy