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MacKiinio69
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June 9, 2012
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PhotoShop CS6 - Lighting Effects Not showing

  • June 9, 2012
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I know the question sounds like the ones you get all the time but in PhotoShop cs6 I can access the filter>render>lighting effects but when I click the lighting effect tab nothing shows and when I watch a tutorial and people open filter>render>lighting effects a adjustable thing appears on the layer which they can edit but I can not do this. Any help?

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Correct answer Clarke1234

The answer is even simpler than you think... You need to work in 8 bits mode to use the lighting effect. To do this select:

Image/mode/8 bits/channel

and it should work

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Brett N
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Brett N
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June 11, 2012

Moving to Photoshop forum

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March 22, 2016

Went to Preferences on my MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Early 2013)> Performance. The "Use Graphics Processor" was checked. I clicked the Advanced Settings button, changed the Drawing Mode to Basic, and retried it again... nothing. I tried some of the other solutions (e.g. went to images/mode and "8 bits/channel" was already selected. Tried seeing if my graphics card needed updated, but it has the current updates.


Out of options to get the Lighting Effects to work?


MacBook Pro - (early 2013)

OS X - El Capitan

Version - 10.11.4

Graphics - Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

Photoshop CC 2015

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