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CS2 Problems With Rendering--Lighting Styles Went AWOL


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My CS2 has lost the lighting styles. How do I get them back?

Filter...Render...Lighting Effects....Styles drop-down dialog box has a blank field for styles options

There should be the following options: 10 O'Clock, 2 O'Clock Spotlight, Blue Omni, Crossing, etc. There should be a total of about 18 options and I have none.

I checked my Plug-ins/Filters/Lighting Styles directories and the files are intact in their directory, but CS2 just will not access them.

Can somebody help with a solution?

Thanks
 
has anyone ever tried this; insert the disk, go to 'add or remove programs', click on 'remove' when the dialog pops up, click on 'repair', I've never tried it, but it might work \:/
 
My CS2 is bugging me too; but I think it's a matter of personal preference.
1. Now I cannot drag images from a browser window directly into PS
2. How come maerging links just became more difficult? [confused]
3. It slows down on me every once in a while; lags on even just selecting a layer.

- Al
 
Alistair said:
1. Now I cannot drag images from a browser window directly into PS
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I haven't tried that. if there's several I want to look at later
I usually just drag them into a folder on the Mac's desktop and then open them
using Photoshop.
 
Alistair said:
1. Now I cannot drag images from a browser window directly into PS
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Never knew that was possible, have to try that.

Alistair said:
2. How come maerging links just became more difficult??
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I wouldn't say more difficult, just different. Just play with it for a while, you're getting use to it and the new approach actually has several advantages.

Alistair said:
3. It slows down on me every once in a while; lags on even just selecting a layer.
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Alistair, there is a v9.01 update for Photoshop CS2 which solves lagging on most computers. It solved all the problems I had.? ;)
 
sPECtre said:
Alistair, dragging from bridge, you mean, or from windows explorer, or internet explorer?

MLS (Multiple Layers Selection) is extremely addictive, I was trying to CTRL+click several layers the other day, in V7...

I'm pretty positive that the indexing service is the cause of the original problem, just turn it on for that peculiar folder:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.1de7d8e6
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13045
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I'm talking about dragging straight from internet explorer (or firefox; either should work). For CS1, 7, and 6 it allowed me to grab the image from a minimized broswer and throw it right onto photoshop. Now, Photoshop creates a new blank file. It causes problems that aren't too much of a hassle. I just saw it much more convenient before.
 
Download the updates from the Adobe Website directly, then...
For screengrabs, Print Screen is still a good method...
 
sPECtre said:
Download the updates from the Adobe Website directly, then...
For screengrabs, Print Screen is still a good method...
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Yeah I ended up figuring that out myself. . . I wonder why Photoshop wasn't letting me do that. [confused]
 
sPECtre said:
For screengrabs, Print Screen is still a good method...
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Yes it is Pierre, but as you might remember about my post in the Adobe forums, Photoshop CS2 only limits you to make a complete screen copy and not a copy of an individual window or smaller object.
I used Snagit as an alternative, but it used too many resources and has lots of options we Photoshop users never tend to use. It's also not free.

FastStone Capture however is: http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

Note that it's only available for Windows. It uses very little resources (I have it running all the time), never crashes and is easy to use. It can capture windows, full screens, selections, even has an editor. Output can be redirected to clipboard, file, printer or internal editor. Now when I press Alt+PrintScreen I'm able to copy anything I want. It can even capture scrolling windows, like web pages, so you can make a screen copy of a complete page. Great tool, consider trying it.? ;)

Also have a look at FastStone Image Viewer; http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

A free and very capable image viewer that reminds me a lot of the excellent ACDSee when it was still version 3.1
 
Thanks for the info, Gauss, maybe should this post replicated in a recommended software thread?
 
sPECtre said:
Thanks for the info, Gauss, maybe should this post replicated in a recommended software thread?
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Excellent idea, forgot we had a section like that. Will do it soon. ;)
 
Alistair said:
I'm talking about dragging straight from internet explorer (or firefox; either should work).
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I got this to work today - opened PS and a new file and then dragged a picture (one of the "bridge" thread) into
the new file window.
 
sPECtre said:
Firefox vs Explod... erm, Explorer?
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. . . stupid Firefox.

And who said Firefox was better than explorer? [confused]
I think I'm going to go back to Netscape. That's never given me problems.

- Al
 
Alistair said:
. . . stupid Firefox.

And who said Firefox was better than explorer? [confused]
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It's certainly better than Safari for the Mac. The bookmarks drop down works like the one
in Explorer.
 
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