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Lighting FX Black, no preview.

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
December 16, 2019
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Hello!

When I try to use my lighting FX the layer I am applying it to goes completely black. I can see the handles and adjustments but I can not see the effect it is having on my image. If i render it, it is still black.

I also cannot get my lighting FX to reset.

I am on a HP Envy 360 running Windows 10 with a 10th Gen i7 Intel Processor.

I have tried, View<Show<All, with no luck.

I have tried restarting the program, turning off all other programs, still nothing.

Can anyone help>

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davescm

Community Expert

Hi

This is happening on a few systems (including mine which uses an NVidia GTX1080 with studio driver 441.66 It appears to be related to the changes in 3D where the GPU preview is sometimes being reversed (i.e. lights become dark and vice versa)

Please add to the bug report below:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop-lighting-effects-does-not-work-directly-after-upgrade-in-ps-21-0-macos-and-windows?topic-reply-list%5Bsettings%5D%5Bfilter_by%5D=all

Dave

Ussnorway7605025

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ok thats plenty of ram for a preview, so its not that but thanks

are you running some kind of second screen on this system like a remote desktop, ipad link or a projection?

a HP Envy 360 is a smaller lappy but they should be able to run Photoshop... please tell us what Gpu you have... it should have a green sticker with something like, NVIDIA^® GeForce^® MX250... it is possible that Photoshop is trying to use the i7 Intel Processor by mistake

Ussnorway7605025

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@fiducciaphotography can you show us your 3d rendor options please? I want to see first that is turned on but also how much Vram the system is letting Photoshop use

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fiducciaphotographyAuthor

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Anonymous

Hi

Try enabling this option in preferences and restarting Photoshop

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Eric823945

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Hey guys! I'm having this EXACT same issue on both my laptop AND desktop. My laptop is running an AMD Radeon Vega 8 Mobile Graphics and my desktop a GTX 1070. I can't utilize any lighting effects on ANY project whatsoever because it instantly paints whatever object/layer I'm applying it to all black.

Checking legacy compositing doesn't help.

Disabling Open CL doesn't help.

Updating all graphics drivers to most up-to-date versions doesn't help.

Closing all other projects to conserve RAM doesn't help.

Shrinking the image size to conserve RAM doesn't help.

Very frustrating. Recently switched to PS over Gimp and I've never had this issue with Gimp before.

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fiducciaphotographyAuthor

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This is an example of what is happening. This layer is its own unique layer, it is not a smart object, and it is not a mask.

sharp_hands16B8

Community Expert

I can't seem to recreate this issue.

Is it having the problem across all files, or blank/flattened new documents? Is it only that particular image file? Is there something unique about it? It looks to be inverted or negative tonally.

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fiducciaphotographyAuthor

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It is all my files.

If i simply open a new picture, make it a layer, and then try to add a lighting effect it just turns the whole image black. I cannot reset the lighting effects in the upper right hand corner and the only thing that changes any part of the image is the "ambience" slider.

Here is how this a seperate project is set up and what happens when I go to make a lighting effect. The problem persists, everything turns black and is uneffected by any changes I make!

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