Where is lighting effect in photoshop?

[DiskominfoKra]

Dear all.

Hello, i'm new in Photoshop. I have annual subscription and i have latest photoshop 2024 from my creative cloud app.

By the way, i see the tutorial from Adobe here https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/add-lighting-effects1.html
But unfortunately, i can not find ligthing effect in the effect.  

Anyone here help? thanks.

[Derek Cross]

It looks like that feature has been removed as has 3D features.

[DiskominfoKra]

Thanks for reply @Derek Cross , and what the alternative???

[jane-e]

@Derek Cross 

Adobe recommends using Photoshop version 22.2 (from February 2021) if you need more stable performance with Photoshop’s 3D features. You can have more than one version installed. 

Details here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html#using-latest-and-discontinued-features

Jane

[Trevor.Dennis]

Colin Smith has an excellent workaround for the now lost Lighting Effects tool on his Photoshop Cafe channel.  I'd say it is better than the original.

[DiskominfoKra]

Thanks @Trevor.Dennis , i don't think that gradient is an alternative for relight in photoshop.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Did you watch the entire video?  It's actually significantly more powerful than the old Lighting Effects filter, but the bottom line is that's moot, because hanging on to aging version to be able to access the old filter, is not a good solution.

[jane-e]

I agree with Trevor that Colin's video is a truly good workaround, @DiskominfoKra . Did you give it a try?

Jane

[Guy386494381as6]

This is a partial workaround for a small part of what was lost with the removal of lighting effects. A much bigger loss is being able to effectively use a new alpha channel as a bump map to make large scale changes to the image. It was a quick and easy solution to creating topographically shaded images. Now it looks like I'm going to have to literally create a normal map and render a 3D lit plane in Maya or Blender--a MASSIVE waste of time when it used to be possible in photoshop.

[Stephen Marsh]

Perhaps a suitable channel or layer with some blur and the Stylize/Emboss filter?

[sinha5F98]

Currently Adobe has removed "lighting effects" and 3D features from photoshop 2024 ... We also facing the problem... i think next update it should be in there... 

[GARY38981828zl0m]

I've been using Photoshop since Photoshop was born. But with these latest versions (over the past several years) I've become convinced that the Adobe techs who make these changes to the program never actually had to do any creative graphic design work in their life. Seems like they just have the ability to change stuff and so they do just because they can. Bring back the good ol' Photoshop 7 (or even 9) and leave well enough alone!  😉