What happened to layer styles

Stupidly uipgraded to Photoshop CC-- no layer sthyles. Any ideas?

When clicking on the layer's menu in the upper right corner, are you seeing "Blending Options..." in the menu? If so what happens when you click on it? Give us some more info - screen shots, etc.

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What is going on with Layer styles??

For the last few weeks I have been having problems with my photoshop. One day I opened it and all the layer styles (6 gigs worth) were just gone. No one knew how to restore them here so I did them all over again and saved 3 sets at 2gigs each. Now every single time I open Photoshop I don't have any layer styles and have to load them. I updated just now from CS5 to CS6 and the same thing.. I have opened and closed CS6 4x now and each time all my layer styles vanish upon opening.
What is going on and how do I fix it?
BP

Same old answer: If stuff doesn't stick, you have resource (disk space) or permission problems. The files probably don't auto-load, because they are never copied to the user folders and/or the prefs responsible for them never get written. Anyway, 6GB of presets? That's ridiculously insane and probably one of the reasons they got corrupted in the first place.
Mylenium

What happened to Change Layer Content?

This question is related to Photoshop Elements 10.
Photoshop Elements 5.0 had the command "Change Layer Content" under the "Layers" menu. It would allow me to select from solid colors, gradients and patterns in shapes (rectangles, circles, or pre-made shapes. I used it a lot but I don't see it in this new version of Photoshop! What happened to that command? Is there some new command to replace it that I just don't see because I am really having a difficult time locating it!

I have some actions i made for elements to do that if your interested.
You can do it without actions, but it's far from convenient.

I created a multi-layered Photoshop file and the backgroud layer changed to gray and all other layers whacked out. I tried reopening it and restarting photoshop. What happened to my file?

I created a multi-layered Photoshop file and the backgroud layer changed to gray and all other layers whacked out. I tried reopening it and restarting photoshop. What happened to my file?

Your file is most likely toast, but still:
BOILERPLATE TEXT:
If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster).
a screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too.
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
Thanks!

What happened to styles in the new Pages?

I "upgraded" to the new Pages and now all my styles in my older Pages documents are gone. What happened? I cannot work without styles. Pages also informs me that it can no longer show facing pages. Is this supposed to be an improvement?

In answer to the last question, Yes: "Supposed to be".
In practice: No it isn't. Apple has removed 100 features and added a nest of bugs from irritating to serious.
Styles have moved to the side Format panel.
Facing pages are gone along with a lot of other features:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=424&sid=2f0e359c436e cc2d9a9d0e450954dd70&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Peter

Layer Styles don't work with one file

I'm using CS2 for Win. I've got an important file that will not accept layer styles. The layers appear to be "styled" on the layer stack, but nothing previews or shows up on the actual layer. I've created new layers; they don't take styles either. Other files in the system - including new ones - work okay; it's just this one that has the problem.
It could be contaminated; I accidentally saved it as a PDF with layers, and then back to a TIF. It's an 8-bit file; I've tried saving it as a PSD. Same problem.
Is there a way to rescue this thing? I have to get it to a client tomorrow. Many thanks to anyone who can help!

I've been having this happen in Photoshop Elements 2.0. Looks like a bug. But it might be me not knowing what I'm doing.
However, one fix that just worked for me was to use Image -> Duplicate Image. Drop shadow worked in the duplicated image even though it would not work in the orginal. Nothing I've tried doing to the orginal (save and open again, turn layers on and off, chagne order, duplicate layers and delete the "broken" ones, etc) seemed to allow the layer effectrs to work for me once it stopped working.
This "bug" happened to me after messing around with the background layer - deleting and recreating it as a solid color. Looks like the software is getting confused about where to image the drop shadow. Maybe it is getting confused about the order of the layers or something? If you turn the preview OFF you can see small changes as you adjust the paramaters in the effect.
Curt Welch
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Layer Style Stroke Pixel Bug?

I am finding at random times that when I draw a rectangle with rectangle tool and then use layer style to apply a 1 pixel border, the border sometimes have a fade on either side of the that 1 pixel and it becomes 2 pixel. It doesn't appear on all four sides, just randomly left,right,top, bottom...
To better illustrate the problem, i have attached an image and it's zoomed in to show the problem...You see how left and bottom is 1 pixel but not top and right side? This is strange and never happened in CS4...I am using CS5 by the way...Anyone experienced this?

Pixels are the building blocks of raster images but you can put vectors anywhere, even at half pixel increments. So what happens when you tell Photoshop to make a 1 pixel stroke in such a way that it shows 25% in one pixel and 75% in the one next to it? You cannot fill half pixels so it has to either resize your vector so that it snaps to the pixel grid or, and this is what Photoshop does, add anti-aliassing which makes the 25% selected pixel 25% gray and the 75% selected pixel 75% gray (if the stroke was black).

Mimic Photoshop's Bevel & Emboss layer style in Illustrator - how?

Having searched for topics akin to my question, I have only really found tips on how to achieve a bevel and emboss on type.
Here's what I'm trying to create... all using CS4...
I have an artwork, all in Illustrator so far. It has background images of people (as cut-outs), imported from Photoshop, with layer masks, saved as PSD's, to preserve transparency around the figures, which allows me to compose them over each other and other various component graphics, resident in the Illustrator document. This helps me keep all the graphical elements fully editable in the design/layout as only the people come from Photoshop.
The design has been finalised with the addition of a bevel and emboss layer effect, to the whole bounding box area of the design. I.e. the complete 900 x 700 pixel area is affected by the bevel and emboss - all the various underlying pixels of photoshop elements and Illustrator elements.
So far, I have only been able to achieve this by taking the whole thing back into Photoshop, as a single layer and then applying the Bevel&Emboss layer style effect!
Is there a way to keep this all in Illustrator?
It seems daft to have to go back into Photoshop just for the B&E effect... and a little dangerous, in case this step gets overlooked in the future!
My current thoughts involve a couple of shaped blends with a screen and multiply overlay setting for the light and shaded edges... but this is just my mind clicking!
Would love to know if this can be achieved in Illy.

Out of curiosity... and to better understand what Illustrator can do, I'd like to try both of your methods.
However, I'm a little lost with your explanation of the second method...
Can you expand on giving the "L" shaped path (that has been outlined): two fills?
Or the rectangle that has been outlined: four fills?
How do you give a shape more than one fill, gradient or otherwise?
And how do you deal with the light and dark intersections of the two grad styles (as appears in the bottom left and top right corners), did the 45° meeting point just happen or do you have to alter the geometry?
Any chance I could have the .ai file to pull apart?
Another method I found myself, after some experimenting is as follows...
Dotted white line = page/design bounds.
Give 'Shape A' a white drop shadow (Effect > Stylise > Drop shadow) with a "screen" mode and positive values for X and Y offset. This gives a light shadow below and to the right.
Make 'Shape B' a Clipping Mask for 'Shape A' - this leaves nothing but the drop shadow showing.
Give 'Shape D' a black drop shadow (Effect > Stylise > Drop shadow) with a "multiply" mode and negative values for X and Y offset. This gives a dark shadow above and to the left.
Make 'Shape C' a Clipping Mask for 'Shape D' - this leaves nothing but the drop shadow showing.
Here's the result...
Put the new geometry (light and dark bevel shapes) on a layer at the top and, hey presto, they'll influence anything on levels below.
Only downside of this method is that the drop shadows can take a while to render, each time they are adjusted, so it's worth turning them off (or hiding their layer) while working on other areas of the design.
Also, with all of these methods, you don't get quite the same intersections at the bottom left and top right corners, as you do with the bevel and emboss layer style/effect in Photoshop... but that's being really picky!
Thanks for helping with this and hope it helps others.
Still want to work through your methods though.

Layer styles gone rogue?

(P-shop CS5, Mac OS 10.6.8)
I have a doc with several layers. I have layer style "Bevel & Emboss" applied to an element on one layer. But, when I apply layer style "Inner Shadow" to an element on another layer, it messes with the layer style settings on my first layer! This happens when I change the "angle" setting. The layers are not linked, and the first layer style was not "option-dragged" to the second layer. It was a brand new layer style. Anyone have any ideas what's going on? My best guess is that Pshop may have an automatic "dummy proof" function to assure that the shadows are all casting in the right direction in your composition.
Thank you-

You forgot to uncheck the "use global angle" option.
Normally the angles are linked within the document to keep all the shadows/highlights consistent.

Opacity & transparency related layer styles lost on rasterize/flatten/merge down (cs6)

So I'm working on a project and I'm making a button and I have come across an issue that I don't normally have with this particular button...I'm not sure why it's happening or how to fix it...but it's pretty annoying. I'm wondering if anyone can help out or if it's a known bug or anything like that!
So, I have three folders for the three different states, and within each folder are multiple layers, some with layer styles (it seems to be gradients that are playing up here, and opacity related), some with no layer styles but just lowered opacity. I need to flatten each of the folders to create the button sprites. The problem is...I go to flatten the folder and it appears to turn off any gradient related layer styles, and anything at a lowered opacity is ramped up to 100%. I tried going through and rasterizing the invidiual offending layers. Same problem. I tried creating blank layers and merging down the offending layers. Same problem.
I'm stumped! Image examples below:
This problem is messing with my mojo! Any help appreciated!! (and yes, my adobe is all patched up and updated)... I feel like I haven't had to deal with problems flattening transparency for many versions....

Generally speaking you can't expect to collapse groups of adjustment layers into a single layer and hope for much of anything useful to come of it.
If you've gotten Photoshop showing what you want to see, what's the problem with leaving the groups as they are, then just doing Save As (e.g., PNG) to store your work products?
Can you save a small PSD file and make it available online, so we can look carefully inside it to see what you're doing?
-Noel

Color range selection + layer styles

Hello--
Help me if you can!
I have had it on good authority (my photoshop instructor) that color range selection hasn't been working correctly for some time.
I'm using CS2, version 9.0.2 on an IMac os X version 10.5.8.
I am often working with multiple layers that are not similar at all. When I have one layer active and do a color selection, it may also select the color range on inactive layers. Then, if I do a fill, for example, it may affect areas on other layers that were inadvertantly color selected. I know there are ways to ask photoshop to perform a function on all layers, but I don't see this as an option or setting with color range selection. I had started to assume it was sort of like crop, which affects all layers, but when I asked, my teacher says it should only be selecting/affecting the layer that is active.
I found I can deal with this by 'closing the eyes' (making non-visible) the other layers...but that is a hassle and sometimes hides exactly what I need to see.
Then noticed, just lately, that when I use a layer style, it is no longer showing up on my layer palette. Maybe I don't understand correctly, but I thought any layer style addition would show up on the palette under the name of that layer. If I happen to remember that a particular layer used a layer style, I can still click on the layer styles icon and alter it, but it isn't displaying on the layer palette any more--so I cannot toggle or discard the effect simply, and it is hard to know why a layer looks the way it does without that information.
Could be I'm corrupted and need to deinstall/reinstall? Is there something I'm missing about these functions , or something I accidentally changed? I would really appreciate any help or information.

Yes your instructor is wrong, it always selects visible pixels, and always has. You can however create a selection before you go into Color Range, and it will only work within that selection though.
If you want Color Range to work in precisely the same way as it always did in the old versions you need to make sure that you ..
• Highlight a non masked layer and
• Uncheck the somewhat bizarrely entitled "Localised Color Clusters" checkbox
The changes to Color Range happened a few versions ago, to my memory it was with CS4 . The main improvement was that they made it more powerful with the capability to produce better more refined selections. They also unfortunately made the daft mistake of making the command work DIFFERENTLY depending on whether you have a masked or a non masked layer selected. This is not very logical really because it just causes confusion, and doesn't really achieve anything constructive in my opinion. No one who knows what they are doing wants to modify an existing mask using Color Range.

Issues with merging layers with layer styles

Just downloaded CS6 Photoshop off the creative cloud and the merge layer command does not work. What is happening is there is one layer with a layer style then a shape layer and when I hit Cmd E it merges the layers but the layer style will not merge with it. I was chatting it up and everything they recommended did not work. It works on all my other co-workers computers and we are all on the cloud. I tried renaming pref. folder, settings folder, re-installing, holding down shft+option+cmd on start up. I also created a test account but that turned out to be a major inconvenience. Once logged into the account there is nothing there. The suggestions just started getting more ridiculous as chat proceeded. Nothing.
Has anyone experienced this issue?
Does anyone have a solution where I don't have to create a whole new admin account just to see if CS6 Photoshop works correctly?
P.S.
Adobe customer portal is about worthless.

Get Rich or Die Tryin wrote:
Just downloaded CS6 Photoshop off the creative cloud and the merge layer command does not work. What is happening is there is one layer with a layer style then a shape layer and when I hit Cmd E it merges the layers but the layer style will not merge with it. I was chatting it up and everything they recommended did not work. It works on all my other co-workers computers and we are all on the cloud. I tried renaming pref. folder, settings folder, re-installing, holding down shft+option+cmd on start up. I also created a test account but that turned out to be a major inconvenience. Once logged into the account there is nothing there. The suggestions just started getting more ridiculous as chat proceeded. Nothing.
There are two merge layers type commands one is merge down involves only two layers and another that is merge visible layers. In my opinion there is a problem with the way merge down is implemented. When you use merge down if the bottom layer in the merge down has a layer style the merged layer also has this layer style attached. This means that pixels from the layer merged into it will be effected by this layer style. The result may well not look like the composite looked before the merge. The will also happen in CS5. Merge visibile layer works the correct way in my view as the merge progresses the top two layers are merge by applying any layer masks and layer styles first and merging the two layers the resulting layer has no layer masks and no layer style. This result is then merged with the next lower layer with its masks and style applied first. The result is a single layer without mask and style that looks like the original composite view. If your having the problem with CMD|CTRL+E and the result has a layer style try turning the layer style visibility off see if that helps. If it helps some backup to before the merge down use merge visible or first rasterzise the bottom layer to be merged.

Cannot choose layers w/o going to layer style menu

I'm on CS3, on a network. Over the weekend the network admin put through updates to several programs, none of those were Adobe. However, in photoshop, now I can't select a layer by clicking on it. I have to double-click, which opens the layer styles menu, click OK or cancel to close the menu, then the layer will be selected. This isn't happening anywhere else. Illustrator gives me error messages when trying to apply a layer effect, but I don't know when that started, it may not have anything to do with the current network updates. Any ideas, especially for the PS problem? That's quite annoying to deal with.
Thanks!!!

Hi
thanks for the response. I've always done that, that's what was so puzzling.
We finally figured it out - what happened was the couple of files that were
open when IT started the update were the only ones with the problem. They
were corrupted when a force quit was initiated ... or at least that's what
we think.

Layer style affected on all layers

Hello Everybody,
I have 5 layers with similar and different layer styles applied in my psd file (PS CS5). The problem is when I make changes to the styles on one layer, the affect is applied to all the layers simultaneuosly. Why is this happening? Is there any option to turn this off? I need to apply style changes to only a particular layer without affecting other layers. Please HELP.
Thanks
Shiva

Is it the angle of the light that's changing on all the layers? If so, then it's likely you've got the [ ] Use Global Light setting checked. That setting is supposed to tie the light angle together on all the layers so that changes will be coordinated.
If this is not the issue, you may want to do some screen grabs and post them here to show what you're seeing, your layers panel, and the specific layer effects you're seeing the changes in. That will give the folks here more information with which to answer your question accurately.
-Noel

I'm trying to copy a text layer style, but it's grayed out

All text layers in my file is the same problem. The copy text layer is not available. But I can paste a layer style. I tried on another PSD and same thing. I reset my preferances folder and still no luck. This has happened to me once before, and I can't for the life of me remember what I needed to do to fix it. Anyone know the problem?
Thanks
PS CS5
Win7 64
Message was edited by: f8saysso

Solved it myself and am posting the 'solution' for others that are not frequent users of PS..
I was trying to copy the font and color of my text to a bunch of other text layers. Come to find out that it's not possible (as far as I know) without doing the formatting using blending options. Instead, I used the regular text formatting tools. All's good now.

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