Lighting Effect Question

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...and without preview:

Thanks for your comments.

I must be missing something since all of the tutorials/reading I've done on this suggest that the default filter settings will result in a more "narrow" (spotlight) effect (as opposed to what this looks like to me, which seems to be more like an "infinite light" effect - i.e., applied to the whole layer). I thought the default "spot effect" would focus the light more directly??

csuebele wrote:

 

Exactly how would you like the lighting effect to look?

I'm after a "spotlight" effect (don't konw how to describe this more specifically, but hopefully you know what I mean ).

Like this (from the CC help):

Something has got to be wrong with my setup - intensity and ambience don't seem to do anything (meaningful/relevant). I can remove the overall yellow cast by changing colorize to 'white' (along with the color of the top control - to white), but ambience just changes the whole image from dark to light and intensity doesn't do *anything*.

Weird?

Thanks - yes, this all makes sense.

However, this just does not seem to work for me. I've matched the settings in the CC help example (posted above), but just don't see the same effect:

Ya, odd - sure would be nice to get this figured out...

Graphics card is AMD Radeon HD6450

Here's the system info:

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Thanks Chris.

Well, that was not an instantaneous process (updating the ATI driver), but this seemed to do the trick(!).

Thanks very much to both of you for helping to isolate this, much appreciated!

Ya, in this case it's interesting that the effect was present after a driver update; I'd be interested in knowing what exactly was fixed (newly available) in the driver that allowed Photoshop to correctly render the effect. I'm partly curious because it sure would have been nice if PS had the ability to detect this (i.e., driver update required/recommended). Moreover, I typically rely on Windows Update to identify these updates, but in this case this never happened...

Cheers.