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Newbie question

Hello, new to the "community," but not necessarily to Photo Shop.  I have taken some classes at my local community college, still not a "whiz" but understand enough to follow directions, EXCEPT for some of the tutorials that I run into.

One of my problems is that I follow the instructions to the letter, but for example, when it says to got Filters>Stylize>Polar .... sometimes the functions the instructions tell me to do are "grayed out" and then I'm stumped.  If I did all the steps correct, why would the function I need be grayed out?

I am using the newest iMAC, with Photo Shop CS3.  The only thing I can think is that the instructions are for another "version" of Photo Shop.  This has happened on different "tutorials" and different authors.

Don't know if there is a "one size fits all" solution or not, but if there is something I'm missing that is blatantly obvious, someone please give me a shout.  

I'm just one of them "people" that expects things to happen as descried.  Thanks for listening to my whining!!