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dragantomas
dragantomas
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November 20, 2018
Question

Clouds in photoshop have strong contrast when using keyboard shortcut

  • November 20, 2018
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Hi there,

If I apply clouds thru a keyboard shortcut they always turn very contrasty. However when I apply clouds via menu, they are without they strong contrast.

How can I get rid of this strong contrast when using a keyboard shortcut?

Thanks,

Dragan

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    Michael Bullo
    Community Expert
    Michael BulloCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 22, 2019

    Hi Dragan. Could something you've set up be rendering Difference Clouds instead of Clouds?

    dragantomas
    dragantomasAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 23, 2019

    Hi Michel,

    I dont know what to think of it. I have made a factory reset of photohop. Created clouds shortcut without uploading any previously saved presets, and it still gives me the same problem.

    The strange thing is that when applying Difference Clouds and Clouds (via Filter-Render.. menu), they both give me the same 'soft clouds' render, they are both the same. But when I apply Clouds onto a layer via an keyboard shortcut, it creates an (strongly contrasted) Difference Clouds render.

    Michael Bullo
    Community Expert
    Michael BulloCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 23, 2019

    You are right and this is really interesting. When I apply the Clouds filter through the menu I get clouds. But if I trigger the Clouds filter through a keyboard shortcut I get much higher contrast clouds.

    Just to be sure, before running either method I have set my foreground and background colours to their default black and white and I am filling the layer with a solid white. Both methods add the entry "Clouds" to the History panel but with no additional text.

    All of the above is true and I was about to post this when I re-read the earlier post from Ronald Keller and he nailed it. My keyboard shortcut included the Option (Alt) key on my Mac. I applied a new keyboard shortcut without the Option key and suddenly both methods (menu and keyboard shortcut) of applying the Clouds filter were identical.

    dragantomas
    dragantomasAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 22, 2019

    Hi Sahil,

    Apologies for not replying earlier to your answer regarding my original query. Now I had followed the steps as outlined in the video. Done the factory reset of Photoshop, after moving the indicated prefs files to the desktop. After I had done all that, I hadn't uploaded any (old) presets to photoshop, went to the naked version of keyboard shortcuts, created the shortcut for clouds, then added a new layer, applied the cloud shortcut, and then got the same problem again. Clouds turn to be very contrasty.

    I am using the very latest version of photoshop 2019 CC on MacOS Mojave version 10.14.3

    Anything else you could advise as to how to fix this problem?

    Thanks,

    Dragan

    Sahil.Chawla
    Adobe Employee
    Sahil.Chawla
    Adobe Employee
    November 20, 2018

    Hi Dragan,

    Sorry to hear that, could you please try resetting the preferences of Photoshop and let us know if it helps with the issue?

    Preferences Reset Photoshop - https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html


    Also, please let us know the version of Photoshop and operating system you're working on.

    Regards,
    Sahil

    R
    Ronald Keller
    Legend
    November 20, 2018

    The clouds filter has no standard keyboard shortcut, which implies you made one. If so check you didn't add the Alt key which renders clouds with more contrast..

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