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March 25, 2025
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Getting odd registration on drop shadow and bevel and emboss on Photosop Win

  • March 25, 2025
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Going for a while started about a year ago and I've just been working around it.

This is weird. In P-shop 2024-2025 etc. when I apply drop shadow and/or bevel and emboss to type
elements the word "iris" shows up in the exact color and position of where I'd like by layer effects to be. While have the word "iris" on the ready is certainly an excellent opportunity for individual expression, my specific needs for that exact word run in the "once in ten years" demographic, especially when using photoshop. I use Photoshop every day of the world, so, that usage ratio could easily spike. And It seems like I remember going to a blog some time back written by an Adobe Developer, but not on the CC site who had a cat named "Iris" and apparently he, amazingly, was disgruntled with his tenure at Adobe. Something about "not getting enough exposure for himself or his cat, Iris." Apparently just before being terminated he floated a mysterious script across the bright-web that enigmatically wrote itself into the layer effects of any version of Photoshop CC it encountered and now those users are doomed to remember that blasted cat in infamy. Now...I am not a cat person, but I certainly appreciate his desire to have people love and appreciate his pet more. I really do. I would, however prefer not to put in my share of free advertising for old Iris when I am simply, and perhaps pedantically, looking for that old faithful drop shadow and bevel and emboss that is some familiar, friendly, and confidence inspring.

I'm sure there has been a fix for this in the works that is just about to be available and I"ll be getting it soon, or else the Adobe Team will be anncouncing the bug fix at any minute now. Yes? Yes? Great!!

Just for the record.....here is what I am talking about.

3 replies

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 26, 2025

Could be an intentional Photoshop "Easter Egg" of which there have been many throughout the different Photoshop versions.

 

Like this example of getting a banana to show in the Toolbar.

 

 

 

 

There is usually a specific keystroke or setting associated, so if you could show us the exact settings your using for the 

drop shadow and bevel and emboss, maybe we could replicate it.

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 25, 2025

It's a nice conspiracy theory but I've never seen it, despite using Photoshop daily, and I cannot replicate the issue using Photoshop 26.4.1 and Windows 11
If resetting preferences, as advised by Jane, does not resolve it, please go to Help > System info and click on the copy button. Then paste the copied info here.
Dave

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 25, 2025

@Balthazar d' Estelle 

 

I'm not sure that I followed all of your lengthy post, but I think that what you were saying is that the word Iris pops up every time you create a Drop shadow or bevel and emboss.

 

The first thing to try is to reset each style to its defaults.

 

If that doesn't work, reset Preferences manually after making a back up. When you rename the Preferences file and relaunch, Photoshop creates a new preferences file. Because the original file was renamed and not deleted, you can always retrieve it if it does not solve the issue.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

 

Jane