Adobe Photoshop Effects NOT working in Adobe Illustrator

[Swiski66]

Hello. I'm having a strange issue with my copy of Adobe Illustrator. None of the Photoshop Effects filters are working in Adobe Illustrator. When I click on ANY of the effects, it changes nothing on the object I want to change and it does not offer me the pop-up window to adjust the settings. In the Appearance area, the effect appears to be activated and it has the eye symbol on, but nothing happens when I click the FX either. Illustrator effects seem to work, but none of the Photoshop effects work at all.

[Swiski66]

I'm having a strange problem with my Adobe Illustrator. I can't see the Color Halftone settings when I try to adjust the effects. It should be there immediately when I click on Color Halftone. I reset preferences several times but that isn't fixing the issue. Anyone know what I need to do?

[Ton Frederiks]

To make sure; you have applied the Color Halftone effect, clicked OK.

With your object selected, you double click the Color Halfone effect in the Appearance panel?

[Swiski66]

Hi Tom! I wanted to delete this Community post, but wasn't sure how to do it. I'm now finding I'm having problems with ALL of the Photoshop effects in Illustrator. None of them work! I clicked on several of them, and they are added to my Appearance panel, but the settings panel does not open for me right away like it should, and it my Appearance panel nothing happens when I double click on the FX. The eyeball icon is activated. Any ideas? Thanks for the reply!

[Ton Frederiks]

What System and Illustrator version do you have?

[Swiski66]

Did you get my answer on the OS and AI version? It's not showing up in my feed for some reason that I answered you.

[Swiski66]

AI 25.4.8 and I'm using Mojave. My Mac is older so I haven't updated.

[Ton Frederiks]

Thanks, hard for me to test, that version does not run on my OS.

Maybe someone with a similar OS/AI version can help.

[California Gold]

I am having this problem as well and am not able to find any solution. Selecting the effect adds the efftect to the appearances panel, but that's it, no dialog to adjust anything, and the effects don't work.

[Anubhav M]

Hello @California Gold,

We understand that encountering technical issues can be frustrating. Would you mind sharing some more details, like the exact version of the OS/Illustrator installed, whether Illustrator behaves this way with other files, and a screen recording of the problem (https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/screen-record-an-issue-on-windows-amp-macos-f...) so we can investigate this further?

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks,

Anubhav

[Sean29423534ugun]

I started having this same problem back in Dec 2022. Even after updating illustrator the problem persisted. My OS was Mojave and today I decided to finally update to the latest OS (Ventura 13.3.1)  and it solved the problem. All my photoshop effects are now working again.