I’ve got exactly the same problem, and also just posted a separate topic on this
I didn’t do the uninstallation yet but was very much tempted to. When you uninstalled, did you allow Photoshop to delete all seemingly unused files in the Adobe "common" directory? Photoshop CS also put files in this directory. I was afraid that Photoshop CS might overwrite some files from version 7 with the same names and then got removed when Photoshop 7 is uninstalled.
During uninstallation, You were asked but warned against the consequences of removing those files. Did not choose YES to remove them all or choose to leave them intact?
ya i told it not to delete the shared files
There must be another problem. I removed PS7. I let it remove shared DLLs, etc. I removed the remaining PS7 directories.
My installation works just fine. I just checked. I get no error with the lighting effects filter.
I’d trying reinstalling PSCS, just as a precaution.
Cheers,
Mitch
I’m unable to reproduce this. If you realize any new information or steps, please feel free to email me at , and i’ll see if I can pin this down.
I am on a Mac (Panther) I and have the same problem.
The exact alert message is:"Could not complete the lighting effect because a requested property value could not be found".
I tried various documents and colour modes but the filter simply refuses to work. It does however work in ImageReady and that would be the somewhat silly workaround.
FF
Florian, did you also upgrade? Did you delete any files and/or Photoshop 7 entirely after installing PS CS? Any further details will help me track this.
Yes, I upgraded too, and I moved Photoshop 7.0 to a backup drive. Didn’t move/delete anything but the Photoshop Applications folder.
Thanks for looking into this. As I said it still works in ImageReady CS.
FF
I’m having the exact same issue on Photoshop CS (OSX/Panther). Oddly enough, I quit out of Illustrator CS (which was also running), and the error went away. Perhaps it’s memory-related?
Is there any way to apply this filter to text?
Virginia, this should probably be in a new thread, but oh well… A moderator might come by and move it.
But, yes, you can render lighting effects on text. Either rasterize the text first then run it, which is probably not what you want to do… or you can make a new layer on top of the text, fill it with the same color as the text, run lighting effects on that layer, then group the two together with a clipping group, by pressing Ctrl-G while the new layer is highlighted.
Thanks Jonathan – I’ll give that a try.
Glad I could help, let me know if it works for you!
Worked great Jonathan – just one more fun thing to do with my work!!
We have the same problem. We are running three machines with PSCS on them. All three are on Win2K. Two of them are still running PS7 as well, the other is a clean CS install. The one with the clean install and one of the ones still with V7 on have developed this problem. The error message is the same as described in previous entries.
The other machine hasn’t started doing it, but this filter hasn’t been used a great deal on this machine.
Is there a patch or version upgrade to cure this problem?
Jo
