Lighting Effects styles

Good afternoon,

Photoshop 7.01
Windows XP Professional
Logged in as Administrator
Photoshop installed under Administrator

Why can't I access the Lighting Effects filter styles? The roll down is blank.

If I create a style and try to save it I get "An error occurred while trying to save the style."

Many thanks,

Jonathan

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:33:45 +0200, "Jonathan" <jonathan(nospam)@wildimages.co.za> wrote:

Good afternoon,

Photoshop 7.01
Windows XP Professional
Logged in as Administrator
Photoshop installed under Administrator

Why can't I access the Lighting Effects filter styles? The roll down is blank.

If I create a style and try to save it I get "An error occurred while trying to save the style."

Many thanks,

Jonathan

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Check Mode and bits. Some lighting effects are not available in CMYK, and lighting effects are not available for 16 bit images regardless of Mode..
--sanders
e-mail?Please erase theboard

Thanks Sanders, I have made sure RGB and 8 bit is set - still no joy.

Jonathan

"Sanders" wrote in message

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:33:45 +0200, "Jonathan" <jonathan(nospam)@wildimages.co.za> wrote:

Good afternoon,

Photoshop 7.01
Windows XP Professional
Logged in as Administrator
Photoshop installed under Administrator

Why can't I access the Lighting Effects filter styles? The roll down is blank.

If I create a style and try to save it I get "An error occurred while

trying

to save the style."

Many thanks,

Jonathan

********************'
Check Mode and bits. Some lighting effects are not available in CMYK, and lighting effects are not available for 16 bit images regardless of Mode..
--sanders
e-mail?Please erase theboard

Photoshop 7.01
Windows XP Professional
Logged in as Administrator
Photoshop installed under Administrator

Why can't I access the Lighting Effects filter styles? The roll down is blank.

If I create a style and try to save it I get "An error occurred while

trying

to save the style."

Many thanks,

Jonathan

I am having exactly the same problem. It has cropped up before on this group but I have not found a cure for it yet. I also have PS 5.5 and PS Elements on this computer and both programs have the same problem with the Lighting effects dialogue box, so I am taking a wild guess that the problem may be in the registry.
Sorry not to be any help Jonathan, but at least you now know that you are not the only one with this problem.
Geoff.

"Geoff Jackson" wrote in message

Photoshop 7.01
Windows XP Professional
Logged in as Administrator
Photoshop installed under Administrator

Why can't I access the Lighting Effects filter styles? The roll down is blank.

If I create a style and try to save it I get "An error occurred while

trying

to save the style."

Many thanks,

Jonathan

I am having exactly the same problem. It has cropped up before on this

group

but I have not found a cure for it yet. I also have PS 5.5 and PS Elements on this computer and both programs have the same problem with the Lighting effects dialogue box, so I am taking a wild guess that the problem may be

in

the registry.
Sorry not to be any help Jonathan, but at least you now know that you are not the only one with this problem.
Geoff.

Thanks Geoff

I have just reinstalled PhotoShop 5 on a different Windows XP Prof. machine - same problem.

The plot deepens.

Jonathan

I found the answer, by searching Adobe's User to User Forum I came up with this:

"found that by checking the allow indexing checkbox it may correct the problem. "
"I already had this box checked. However, when I unchecked the box marked "folder is ready for archiving" things worked fine."

On my system, by checking the allow indexing checkbox on the Filters folder, my problem was solved.

Thanks to those who responded.

Jonathan

"Jonathan" <jonathan(nospam)@wildimages.co.za> wrote in message

"Geoff Jackson" wrote in message

Photoshop 7.01
Windows XP Professional
Logged in as Administrator
Photoshop installed under Administrator

Why can't I access the Lighting Effects filter styles? The roll down

is

blank.

If I create a style and try to save it I get "An error occurred while

trying

to save the style."

Many thanks,

Jonathan

I am having exactly the same problem. It has cropped up before on this

group

but I have not found a cure for it yet. I also have PS 5.5 and PS

Elements

on this computer and both programs have the same problem with the

Lighting

effects dialogue box, so I am taking a wild guess that the problem may

be

in

the registry.
Sorry not to be any help Jonathan, but at least you now know that you

are

not the only one with this problem.
Geoff.

Thanks Geoff

I have just reinstalled PhotoShop 5 on a different Windows XP Prof. machine - same problem.

The plot deepens.

Jonathan

I found the answer, by searching Adobe's User to User Forum I came up with this:

"found that by checking the allow indexing checkbox it may correct the problem. "
"I already had this box checked. However, when I unchecked the box marked "folder is ready for archiving" things worked fine."

On my system, by checking the allow indexing checkbox on the Filters

folder,

my problem was solved.

Thanks to those who responded.

Jonathan

That's solved the problem for me also, thanks. I had to change each of the Filters folders for 5.5, 7, and elements. A very odd way to solve the problem.

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Geoff Jackson, Nottingham, UK.

www.gjphoto.f9.co.uk
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