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Re: lighting effects on Elements 13

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:12:43 GMT

I don't think on a windows system you'll be able to get the lighting effects working in pse 13, since if you have a windows 64 bit os, then pse 13 is 64 bits and earlier pse versions on windows are 32 bits and use 32 bit plugins and pse 13 needs 64 bt plugins.

Also, adobe changed some of the plugin dlls in photoshop cc, which a lot of the pse 13 code is based on, so even if you have a 32 bit version of pse 13 or were to use a 64 bit version of lightning effects, it would cause pse 13 to crash.

It definitely won't work on the mac side.

Re: lighting effects on Elements 13

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:50:23 GMT

Addendum: Here are additional instructions to follow if you don't happen to have an older version of Elements to copy over that 32-bit filter from:

Re: Lighting effect

Re: lighting effects on Elements 13

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:42:04 GMT

Apparently, Lighting Effects was dropped in Photoshop Elements 12 (and 13) because it was not compatible with the 64-bit Mac version...

However if you're on Windows, then you may be able to restore the function into PSE 13 (or 12) – see either of these posts/guides for how to do it:

PSE12--Lighting Effects Filter - Elements Village

Restoring Lighting Effects Filters in Photoshop Elements 12

Hope that helps!

Re: lighting effects on Elements 13

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:24:52 GMT

Thanks Neale. So basically I bought a downgraded upgrade. Do you have any idea if I can downgrade to v.11?

Re: lighting effects on Elements 13

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 12:50:43 GMT

See here, What features from previous versions are not available in Adobe Photoshop Elements 12?, they were dropped in v12.

Cheers,

Neale

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lighting effects on Elements 13

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 06:26:42 GMT

I can't seem to find the lighting effect on the Photoshop Elements 13 I just bought. I used to find it in Filters/Render. Is it a new feature with 13 or it's just me? I use a Windows 8.1 64-bit. Thanks.