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WHERE DID LIGHTING EFFECTS GO?

April 26, 2011 by Corey Barker Tip of the Day 8 Comments

Well you may notice that in the Filter menu under Render there used to be a filter called Lighting Effects. Unfortunately in CS5 this filter will not work in 64-bit mode. You need to go to the application folder and locate the Adobe Photoshop folder. Click on the application icon and press Command-I to get info. Then check on Open in 32-bit mode. Quit Photoshop then re-launch. The filter should be available now.

Posted by Corey Barker

Corey is the newest education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He is a graduate of the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Fl, with a degree in Illustration. Over the years, Corey has worked as a graphic artist in a variety of disciplines such as illustration, commercial design, large format printing, motion graphics, web design and photography. His expertise in Photoshop and Illustrator have earned him numerous awards in illustration, graphic design and photography. Using Photoshop since Version 2, his expertise and creativity have evolved exponentially with every new version, which makes Corey an invaluable addition to the NAPP team.

8 comments on “WHERE DID LIGHTING EFFECTS GO?”

  1. Hi Corey: Great job with Planet.

    Can you relook at your tip “Where did Lighting effects go?” ? the tip didn’t sound right to me, so I went and looked. I run only PS CS5 64 bit. Don’t even have the 32 bit version installed. I open all images as 16 bit files. When I looked at Filter/Render the “Lighting Effects” was greyed out. I switched the image mode from 16 bit to 8 bit and took another look. No problem, “Lighting Effects” was available.

    I think, what you saw was that when you switched to 32 bit PS5 it defaulted to opening images as 8 bit, so “Lighting Effects” was available.

    I believe the issue is more 16 bit image versus 8 bit rather than 64 bit program versus 32 bit program.

    Thanks

    Tom

    BTW: I suckup everything you put out, both here on the Planet and over at NAPP. You must be working on a book. As long as it’s not about 3D I’ll be one of the first to buy it.

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  3. I have Windows 7 64bit and Photoshop running in 64bit mode, lighting effects works. I assume this is just a a Mac thing?

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  5. Hello,

    I’m having the same problem, I’m running Photoshop CS6 32bit… I’m creating new 8bit files in RGB mode… but for some reason “lighting effects” seems to be blanked out, I don’t seem to be able to carry on with my project until I can use it

    Thanks in advance,

    Daniel.

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