Lighting effects not showing handles so cant move or adjust them, have tried all common fixes.

[Banshey]

I am trying to use the Lighting Effects filter on the latest version of photoshop on windows with the latest version of Nvidia GPU drivers (1060 6gb card) on Windows 10. When I open the Lighting panel I can add lights and move the sliders but there are no handles to adjust and move the lighting itself. 

I have tried the Show > All settings and that doesn't work as well as the show transform controls workaround too. 

Pulling my hair out with this issue. Such a pain. Cannot find a fix and getting more and more frustrated with these PS bugs. 

Any help would be much appreciated. 

Thanks!

[Batman8482]

I have tried all the suggestions. GPU is compatible, RGB/8 bit, lots of RAM,  Deactivate Native Canvus is checked, Performance is set to the GPU and Use Open CL is unchecked... on and on. I even reset my prefrences. Still no adjustment handles. Any other suggestions?

[davescm]

As stated above in this thread, 3D (which includes lighting effects)  is deprecated and being removed. If you need 3D functions then you will need to use v22.2.

Dave

[Batman8482]

Any alternatives other than an earlier version such as a good plugin? If not, I'll back up to v22.2. Thanks for your help

[davescm]

You can have both the current version and v22.2 installed on the same PC.

Dave

[Batman8482]

Thanks, Dave. That worked great. I'll use the older version for lighting. Appreciate your time.

[Emily268270003tg8]

The earliest version I am able to install is 23.0. Did Adobe remove v22.2 all together?

[Ged_Traynor]

@Emily268270003tg8 I'm afraid they did, you can contact Adobe Customer Care and request a download link for version 22.2

[Camaxide]

I laready have one old version installed to retain the brushes used for painting grass - which was also deemed no longer useful by Adobe after years of being there. How many versions should we keep installed to keep functions that is being removed? Backward compability is not the same as keeping all the old veersions available so we can install them all at the same time 🙂

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I laready have one old version installed to retain the brushes used for painting grass - which was also deemed no longer useful by Adobe after years of being there. 

What was the problem exactly? 

The Brush engine should still be able to handle old Brushes, the new options did not replace the old ones, including sampled brushes. 

Could you provide the abr-file for one and images to illustrate how it is intended to work and how it fails now? 

[Ignats27237843a7jz]

So 3D is going, but why is Render>Lighting effects going too? It's not part of the 3D menu.

And what is Adobe offering as an alternative?

[jane-e]

@Ignats27237843a7jz wrote:

So 3D is going, but why is Render>Lighting effects going too? It's not part of the 3D menu.

Lighting effects are part of the 3D engine.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html

And what is Adobe offering as an alternative?

By @Ignats27237843a7jz

You can use Photoshop 22.2 if you continue to need access to Photoshop 3D features. 

Jane

[garymak]

Think of the logic of that: "Our new version isn't as good as our old version, so we should go back to the old version..."

Also, while Photshop may have attached Lighting Effects to a 3D model, lighting is fundamental to photography image management, building out 3D models, spheres and other effects isn't.  SO, "what is Adobe going to do about it?" is what I think we're all wanting to learn.... 

[Joseph Thomas]

Anyone know of a third party plug in or fairly cheap alternative for adding lighting effects seeing as Adobe no longer do?

[Adriano34760372xmv0]

I just had the same problem and found a solution. Before you open the lightning effects go to VIEW -> Show and enable "3d lights" and "3d selection". It works.

[Dana Beck]

Well, Adriano, I was just about to give you a piece of my mind (take it all)...but it does work on my system! YIKES! Adobe ought to hire you. I am using--for lighting effects--Photoshop 2023, working on a 2017 iMac (Intel) with OSX 12.7.6 (as far as this machine can be upgraded) with 40 GB ram, if that helps anyone. I have been working on a workaround for this limitation for a couple of weeks now, so I thank you!

[Dana Beck]

Update: Well, I got the lighting effects to work correctly on 1 file (see above post), but I subsequently messed up 2 additional files in the Lighting workspace (video corruption with horizontal lines), and once that happens, the 3D options (under "View" menu) were no longer available to me. I think it's possibly a video card problem (8 MB video). Anyway, I give up for now.

[Dana Beck]

Well, I tried those same 2 files this afternoon, and it works fine using Adriano's instructions. Weird, the VIEW Menu didn't even look the same as it did yesterday. I did upgrade 2023 yesterday afternoon, so maybe that accounted for the difference. I dunno... Anyway, if you've given up on this feature, try it again; might need a couple of PS restarts to get the 3D options (under View) populated correctly.