Photoshop 2022 Lighting Effects greyed out
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One of my biggest gripes I have right with the latest Photoshop versions is that using the lighting effects proven to be difficult and a source of user toil. It used to work just fine a long time ago when I used Photoshop on Windows 98 but now the feature and its setup has become too cumbersome to use.
Right now, I have a bug in which, after following the advice on this forum, I was able to get "lighting effects handles appearing in Photoshop 2021." However, after a recent upgrade to Photoshop 2022, now the lighting effects is just plain greyed out without explanation.
I looked at the posts on GPU compatibility and that doesn't seem to be an issue on my Mac.
Here's my OS info:
Anyone have any ideas?
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Lighting effects uses the 3D engine which is being discontinued in Photoshop.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html
You may be able to get it working by going to Preferences > Performance and checking Disable Native Canvas. Then click OK and close and restart Photoshop. However if that is not succesful then you may need to re-install v22.2 or earlier from the CC desktop app.
Dave
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Please please bring back Lighting Effects ASAP - and please no work arounds ..I'm paying good money for this to work flawlessly
Pat Coffey
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Are you foolish enough to believe Adobe values their customers?
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Could you please explain why Lighting Effect is being discontinued? I know it is a conversation that is not new. But this feature is very useful. I have been using it on all my photos presenting my art projects. I also think that there is quite a significant number of people in the Adobe community that thinks the same. I think you should make the decision of leaving it and enhancing it. Best,
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The decision is explained by Adobe in the link, two posts above yours. I've linked it here again:
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html
Dave

