Photoshop-Live-Effect: outer Glow Question

Hello everybody
Well after my positive impression about my first Post here, I hope, that someone can help me again.
My problem is: In the Photoshop-Live-Effects, Category "Outer Glow" (Äußeres Glühen) is in the Part "Quality" (Qualität) the Option "random value" (Zufallswert).
Well, when would be this option works?
In Photoshop does this function only works, if the outer glow has a gradient, but that is in Fireworks not possible, as far as I know...

Photoshop Live Effects are still new to me, as I just recently upgraded from Fireworks 8. This post from Jim Babbage echoes what Linda just said about them (that is, they help to maintain continuity between Photoshop and Fireworks):
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2862805#2862805
The case of "Jitter" is interesting though. It can only be applied in Photoshop and only if the gradient option is chosen. Yet when I tried this, and then opened the PSD file in Fireworks, the appearance was maintained but none of the correct settings appeared in the Photoshop Live Effects dialog. And adjusting the settings had no effect either. That doesn't really fit my idea of a "live" effect. In fact, it seems more like a flattened effect—except that its editibility is maintained if the file is reopened in Photoshop.
Maybe they should call them Photoshop "hibernating" effects. ("They're not dead—they're just asleep!")
Clearly, there's room for improvement here. It begs the question: Why include a slider for something that can neither be created nor adjusted in the application? (Of course, I'd rather they figure out a way to add support for gradients here than just remove the slider.)

Similar Messages

  • Keep Photoshop live effect (inner glow) with transparent background

    I currently have a circle with a background color and a photoshop live effect of an inner shadow.  I'm trying to set the background to transparent, but when I do so, the inner glow becomes invisible.  Can someone please offer some tips on how to keep the inner glow with the background being transparent?  The only thing I could figure out was lowering the opacity, but then the true color of the background doesn't come through. 
    Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks

    You could create the effect you want in the following way_
    Drag out an ellipse with the vector ellipse tool on Fireworks. Fill it with the color you want the inner glow to be. Change the fill from solid to a radial gradient. Open the gradient editor and make sure that both colors of the gradient are the same. The color chip on the left side of the gradient ramp is the one that controls color in the center of the ellipse. The black chip above it controls opacity. Click on the black chip and change the opacity to 0. Adjust the position of the fill handle and the chips on the ramp to get the effect that you want.

  • CS5 - Missing gradient editor in Photoshop Live Effects/Stroke

    Try this: select an object, apply a photoshop smart effect > stroke > Fill type: gradient
    and let me know if you have any way to edit the gradient there, I can't figure out how to work that.
    Thanks!

    I'm trying to apply a gradient stroke without resorting to outlining the path I'm working with... but apart of that, WTF? You guys put in a feature that works only 50% to keep stuff compatible? Really? What kind of product management do you guys have over there? C'mon!
    Fireworks is driving me crazy, stuff that is supposed to be 27 pixels looks out of sync, and even snapping to pixel doesn't do the magic most of the time.
    not to mention the hilarious decision of somebody to make the autoshape dialog NOT pick up the Uber-common CTRL-A shortcut, so when I'm trying to select all the content in one of the inputs, selects all my artwork instead.
    I have more, are you interested?

  • Adobe Live Effects are not supported 100%. Why?

    Using FW CS3 for Web designs.
    As most of you know, you can implement some Photoshop Live
    Effects inside FW CS3 but not 100%.
    I am curious why?
    For example, in FW CS3, when I try to implement "Satin"
    effect to a button, my preferences are limited compared to Photosop
    version. In Photosop you can select a preset contour and you can
    change the blend mode. But in FW you can only change angle,
    distance, color, size and opacitiy.
    And same thing goes for other effects. They don't have same
    options, and they don't create same effect with PS CS3.
    I am asking this because I used strictly FW for my Web
    designs, but now I see that I can create much cooler buttons in PS
    CS3, which is mainly a photo editor :/
    Is there any way to make it 100% PS compatible?
    Thanks.

    On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:30:24 +0400, DeadManWalking
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Using FW CS3 for Web designs.
    > As most of you know, you can implement some Photoshop
    Live Effects
    > inside FW
    > CS3 but not 100%.
    > I am curious why?
    >
    > For example, in FW CS3, when I try to implement "Satin"
    effect to a
    > button, my
    > preferences are limited compared to Photosop version. In
    Photosop you can
    > select a preset contour and you can change the blend
    mode. But in FW you
    > can
    > only change angle, distance, color, size and opacitiy.
    >
    > Is there any way to make it 100% PS compatible?
    Based on the timing, I suspect that development of FW CS3 was
    started
    before Adobe and Macromedia merge. So the fact that they are
    not 100%
    compatible does not look surprizing to me. Probably it will
    change in the
    future. Take into account that PS and FW are rather big
    projects, they
    cannot be fully re-coded in a minute.
    Ilya Razmanov
    http://photoshop.msk.ru -
    Photoshop plug-in filters

  • Live effects pattern overlay

    I'm trying the PhotoShop LIve Effects in Fireworks CS4, and trying Pattern Overlay. My problem is I only see controls for Opacity and Scale, not to change the pattern. There is only one pattern, which isn't very useful. I tried changing to another pattern in the main Properties but that doesn't change the single pattern in live effects, which looks like big bubbles. Am I missing something here?

    Photoshop Live effects are more of a way to maintain existing Photoshop Layer Styles when a PSD file is opened in FW. Yes, they are of limited use, but they are functional. For example, the Stroke Live Effect is a feature that is not available in Fireworks. Very handy if you want to add a stroke around a bitmap image.
    Jim Babbage

  • How do you add outer glow effect to text in Elements 12?

    I've created a layer in Elements 12 that contains some text.  I'd like to add an outer glow effect. 
    This is what I am doing:
    1.  Select layer with text
    2.  Click FX button at bottom of screen
    3.  Click Styles tab
    4.  Select Outer Glow from drop down
    5.  I can see 11 preset option.  The only one that works is called 'Fire' and it is not the style I'm looking for.  I want a simple outline, but none of the other presets have any effect.
    Any help would be appreciated!!  Thanks!
    Jeff

    jeffreys42057005 wrote:
    I've created a layer in Elements 12 that contains some text.  I'd like to add an outer glow effect.
    This is what I am doing:
    1.  Select layer with text
    2.  Click FX button at bottom of screen
    3.  Click Styles tab
    4.  Select Outer Glow from drop down
    5.  I can see 11 preset option.  The only one that works is called 'Fire' and it is not the style I'm looking for.  I want a simple outline, but none of the other presets have any effect.
    Any help would be appreciated!!  Thanks!
    Jeff
    Jeff,.
    You're almost there!
    Try  #4 Outer Glow>Simple. Apply.
    Now on the text layer in the layers palette, there is an f on the right. Double click on the f
    This brings up the Style settings dialog. At the bottom, check "Stroke", and adjust with the sliders to suit.

  • Photoshop CS4-Outer glow changes specs (spread, size etc) when dragged into another ps file of similar size

    Hello. I'm trying to add an outer glow to multiple photoshop images that have (at least one) of the same file dimensions as the original photoshop file. I'm doing this by dragging/dropping the original file's outer glow into the new files. But the size/spread/etc. of the outer glow changes once in the new file. Trying to automate this process and have to redesign the drop shadow for every batch of images I get. Anyone have any advice on why this is occurring? Or any advice on how to automate if this method does not work? I'm trying to keep the look of the outer glow consistent with every new batch. Thanks for looking! Yea, I know, still working in CS4 unfortunately.

    Try resetting the printer subsystem.

  • Basic Photoshop 101: I want to use an image with an outer glow in another Photoshop document. When I place the image, the outer glow has hard edges where the box of the image cut the glow off. Naturally, I want a soft feathered outer glow. How do I get th

    Basic Photoshop 101: I want to use an image with an outer glow in another Photoshop document. When I place the image, the outer glow has hard edges where the box of the image cut the glow off. Naturally, I want a soft feathered outer glow. How do I achieve that? Thank you.

    That should work out, maybe edit it to force updating in the new image.
    Could you please post a screenshot with the Layers Panel visible?

  • Outer glow effects won't render.

    I applied an outer glow to my opjects in illustrator but it just won't display.
    I'm woried that I've hit some kind of weird hotkey that turns raster effects off or something, but I dont even know where to start looking.
    I've used glows in the past and its always a bit wonkey but now it just wont do anything.
    I've been using spot colors, but have tried it without to no effect, and I run windows 8.
    I want to apply it to the compound shape hammer time, I thought maybe it was not working because of the compound shape so I tried getting rid of my inside shapes, but its not really changing.
    I did just notice that there is a weird haze around the top hammer time on this image, but ONLY if you turn your head and look at the monitor from a strange angle can you really see it. So it might just be that I screwed up my glow settings here.
    I'm trying to get the glow to be very strong for about half an inch and the fade out.

    There are tools in the system that help you do it.
    But actually it would be better to use calibration hardware.
    http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html

  • Outer Glow issue in Illustrator CS4

    I have a file with a very large logo. probably 4 feet wide by 2 feet tall. I am trying to put the Outer Glow on it so that the logo will show up nicely on a dark background. This however seems to lock up Illustrator, and or, cause the file to be huge. Any suggestions to get the 'glow' I am referring to without this happening?
    Thanks.

    Not to belabor this, but since you're planning to re-do it (was not my intention to convince you to do that):
    Especially given the overall size, involving a single full-span background raster image, and the simple content, this is my typical practice for that kind of thing:
    1. Build the background image in Photoshop, as I think you already have.
    2. Set up the full-size AI document, with guides at the panel edges, any necessary bleeds, etc. (It's good to mark where the panel seams are, even if you are not going to build individual files for the separate panels. That often lets you tweak the position, for example, of text so that the seams occur between words.)
    3. From Photoshop, save a low-res version of the background image (or just take a screenshot) to use "for position only" on a background layer in Illustrator.
    4. In Illustrator, position the vector objects and text without raster effects. Also draw a temporary, small, filled, unstroked square aligned to two opposite corners of the whole layout's guides. (Assuming the EPS logo you mention is simple vector content, I would Open it, not place it as a link.)
    5. Copy any objects created in step 4 which require a raster drop shadow, glow, etc. and the two small squares.
    6. Switch to Photoshop. Paste. Select Rasterize in the resulting dialog. Proportionally scale to the corresponding guides in Photoshop. (The two tiny squares ensure proper position of all the other elements.) You can do the scaling and positioning while it's still selected; it doesn't actually get rasterized until you "nail it down."
    7. Apply the drop-shadows, glow, etc. as a Layer Style. In the Layers Palette, split the effect(s) as separate layer(s). (There's a comand for that.) Delete the pasted content. That leaves the original background object and the raster effects.
    8. Flatten the layers. Now you have one simple background raster image, with the shadows, etc., part of it. Delete any unnecessary alpha channels, etc. Save as TIF.
    9. In Illustrator, delete the low-res FPO. Place the TIF in Illustrator. The vector objects and text are still in their intended positions and their shadows, glows, etc., are actually part of the background image.
    10. Save the Illustrator document. Save a Copy... as print-ready PDF. Send the PDF to the vendor.
    Some will argue that is rather old-school, and go on about so-called Smart Objects and "why don't you just apply the live effects in AI?" yadda, yadda, yadda. Well, it is somewhat old-school, but it is also rock-solid reliable. No automatically generated clipping mask, no automated slicing, no unpredictable stitching artifacts--no ugly surprises. Just a clean, efficient file that you won't lose sleep over. And the behavior of Illustrator doesn't slow to that of cold molasses.
    JET

  • Is it possible to use transparency AND outer glow within a composition target?

    I've created a composition which uses a bunch of buttons to show different overlays over a background image. The idea is that you can see through the overlaid images using 50% opacity (for example) to see the image underneath, thereby understanding the context of the overlaid image. I also wanted to highlight the overlaid image with an outer glow. This sort of works but I can't get the outer glow AND the opacity to work together, when applied to the state of the overlaid image. If I apply them both I lose the 50% opacity. In the end I've had to apply the 50% opacity to the composition target itself but this is not ideal as this impacts other elements within the target (such as a box with text describing the overlaid image). The outer glow and opacity work fine when applied to an image OUTSIDE of the composition e.g. a picture placed on the page.
    The link below takes you to the page I'm working on.
    All the composition targets have 50% opacity (or 75% on click) applied to the target itself and the the outer glow applied to the picture EXCEPT "Cubby Pair" which has opacity 50% AND outer glow applied to the picture. As you can see the "Cubby Pair" seems to ignore the opacity setting and is 100% opaque.
    Under the Hood (TCV-M)
    Any ideas?
    Edit: when I Preview in Muse it works but not when I view in browser (both IE and Chrome, haven't tried Firefox)

    I think I solved my own question. Instead of using "Opacity" next to the "Effects" option I have used "Fill" opacity. This appears to work fine now.

  • Live Effects on images that crossover gutter.

    I have a 156 page job with facing pages that was created in Indd CS4. It has many instances where images are placed which crossover the gutter. The images have some transparency effects applied. Basic Feather and/or Inner Glow, so the outside perimeter of the image fades to paper. When we print or export pdfs as single pages it breaks the image at the gutter and then applies the effects to both the left and right hand halves of the image adjacent to the gutter so when impose for print there is a white feathered area running vertically through the gutter.
    The solution is NOT to print in spreads. If this was a simpler job I could do that. This is a fairly complicated imposition and the pages are in 32 separate files. Anyone know a setting to keep the live effects from applying to the center of the image when single pages are created?
    Thanks in advance for any and all help.
    Clark
    Color Press

    Oh I got around it easily enough. Just cropped it down in Acrobat.
    But still... See images below. Exported with bleed & without bleed.
    Though today, found a solution! Simple enough - just fill those image boxes white (& extend the boxes further out so no shadow in the bleed).
    Wtf? Even with images bleeding off, the shadow snaps to the trim box when exporting a PDF with no bleed!? And all it takes is a fill of white instead a fill of none....

  • After Effects CS4 Exporting Question

    I am creating several After Effects CS4 compositions that will be used in a Premier Pro CS4 project. Right now I am importing the AE compositions into Premiere with out exporting them first. It is real convenient to be able to click into PP and see the current changes take effect. My question is this, once I am done tweaking a composition should I be exporting it in another format or I is it ok to use the AE file as is? Am I suffering any quality loss by not going to quicktime or one of the other choices?
    And in PP you hit enter to render. Is the AE equivalant hitting the space bar and playing the timeline? I see the green line above any changes but I didn't know if there is another step to maximize the quality of the finished product.
    Thanks in advance for any help.
    Cole

    R-Cole wrote:
    Am I suffering any quality loss by not going to quicktime or one of the other choices?
    If you suffered any quality loss, you'd know your settings are wrong. Most commonly people make a mess of field order, which of course you can neatly avoid by using DynamicLink such as you already do. The rest is more or less a matter of personal preference and how much performance is consumed by live rendering the AE compositions vs. how much juice your machine has. You wouldn't use that workflow on very complex projects where rendering a single frame can take up to several minutes, but for straight titles and color corrections it's okay.
    R-Cole wrote:
    Is the AE equivalant hitting the space bar and playing the timeline?
    The green line refers to frames stored in RAM, the blue ones to the disk cache, should you use it. Read the help files on how to generate RAM previews to populate both caches. After you have RAM-previewed each segement of the timeline and use the disk cache, it may be possible to get realtime spacebar playback, but there is no guarantee for that. After all, AE is primarily foicused on compositing, not RT editing. There's one caveat, however. The disk cache will only be used, if AE thinks it could not render the frames quick enough, so in your simple scenario it may never be used. And of course specific chnages will invalidate caches, so you's have to re-render. It really depends.
    Mylenium

  • Is lag to be expected? Brush with Outer Glow and Stroke

    I have a new Dell XPS One 2720 running Windows 8, 4th Gen i7, 16GB RAM, Nvidia 750M 2GB and Cintiq 21UX hooked up via HDMI as a second monitor in Extended Desktop mode.
    I am a comic artist and am working on an A4, 400 dpi document in Photoshop CC 64bit and if I try to draw a line with an Outer Glow and 5 point Stroke applied I get crippling lag.
    Is this normal for this spec machine, I've just 'upgraded' from a 4 year old iMac and I would say Photoshop ran better on that machine than my new PC. That can't be right, can it?

    Thanks for the link to the other thread JJMack, will check that out.
    Curt Y, Turned off all visual effects in System Properties > Advanced > Performance and problems contrinued.
    Might be getting somehwere though. Opened up the exact same file in the 32 Bit version of Photoshop CC and I don't get any lag at all when drawing a line with a stroke and outer glow applied.
    Obvious difference between the 32 and 64 Bit versions and  is that the former uses less of my systems RAM, so I went in to the Performance Tab in Preferences and changed all the values in the 64 bit version to the same as the 32 bit version and the lag was gone in the 64 bit version too.
    Downside to this is that Photoshop is now using only 13% of my available RAM (1895Mb). I also changed the Cache Tile Size from 1024K to 128K and unticked USE Open CL in the Graphics Processor Settings.
    Does this point to some bad RAM?

  • Is there a way to set an outer glow size to % to crete an object style?

    Hi, i have an effect that (an outer glow) and now it's perfect on my graphic that is 1 in X 1.5 in. Except that i will need to have multiple version of this grahic at different sizes, i want to know if there is a way to create an object style taht will make the same effect if i have different graphics at different sizes (without having to import the graphic at the same size and then scale it).
    Thanks!

    The only way I know to scale an effect with the art in ID is if the art is linked. You could do this with an Illustrator file, for example, or make the art in ID as a separate file, then place it into another document and scale.

Maybe you are looking for