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Germain Aguilera

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Aug 4, 2024, 9:44:00 PM8/4/24

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Recentlywith the latest update, when I double-click on a layer's styles to edit them, the window that usually pops up no longer appears. I have to hit "Esc" to return me to Photoshop (which appears locked out, as though the Layer Style window is open, but it's not showing). I've tried every which way I can think of to see this hidden window. If I reset Photoshop's preferences, the Layer Style window will return for about 2-3 uses before the same thing happens again and I can no longer access / see the window at all to further edit my layer styles.

I can't keep resetting my Photoshop prefs every half hour! For one thing, I rely on my prefs being set up a certain way. And that's just too much; this used to function just fine. I guess I could install an older version of Photoshop CC and that might do the trick. But surely there should be a way to get the usual access to the Layer Style window where I can make layer style modifications?

What exactly does that do, turning off "use graphics processor" in the performance preferences? The info panel mentions certain features and interface enhancements, but doesn't mention what those are.

Yes, there is a second monitor involved, but Photoshop (and all my apps) are always on the main monitor (the other one is almost always off). I also use macOS's Spaces feature, which occasionally has caused problems in the past (though not with Photoshop that I can recall). That said, I never move that pop-up panel's location at all, and I'm a careful computer user.

The reason I didn't mention those things above in my post is that they simply seem like red herrings. I'll be using Photoshop just as normal, double-clicking on a layer style to edit it in the pop-up window that has always appeared in the past, and it will work (after the last preference reset) just as it always has, up until, at some random point within the same session (I could just have double-clicked less than a minute ago on the layer style and edited it as usual), so at this point, suddenly clicking again makes Photoshop act as though a pop-up control panel window is open (so you can't use other tools, and I have to hit 'Esc' or 'Return' to exit out)... but there's just no pop-up window there anymore, and won't be until the next preference reset at this point. Isn't that strange? I've used Photoshop for over 20 years, and I don't remember when Layer Styles were introduced, but I've never seen behavior like this in Photoshop before!

When I looked, I found the layer styles dialog window hiding on my second monitor, quite unexpectedly. As I mentioned, this is within my usual workflow, so it might have appeared in the appropriate spot seconds before it then leaps out of view onto the second monitor. How strange! This has been an issue only since the latest Photoshop update (19.1.1) I believe (I say I believe because there are times I use Photoshop less in a month, but it is a very recent bug, because I'm a heavy Layer Styles user).

Been trying to search for an answer online for quite a while now but can't seem to find anything new. I'm familiar with layer styles and I've been merging them down to rasterize a layer, but for some reason none of this logic seems to be of any help with this particular case; Although a familiar concept, I must admit that I have never used layer styles to this degree, so the amount of variables is what gets me lost.

I was practicing with layer styles, mostly creating layers with flat single-colored areas of shape and experimenting with the settings.I ended up creating several layer copies with the same blobs, setting layer Fill to 0%, then applying different styles to them to create whatever is visible. Some style settings cause the blob to expand over the original shape's dimensions which I don't want, which calls out for a layer mask. But if you apply a mask directly to the layer, the style itself is affected by the mask boundaries, not just what you see, as would happen in case of normal pixels. As a workaround, most styled layers had to be placed into folders, and the mask stencil applied on the folder instead of layers. Actual layer fill set to 0% is because I was working with glassy objects and I wanted to focus fully on what the styles alone do.

All looks nice when the .PSD is open in Photoshop, but from there on, nothing seems to work. The image always ends up looking completely different when trying to export it into flat form. Especially light effects like bevel just seem to get baked to the image as full-on burnt white, even though the light that I'm seeing in Photoshop is subtle, three-dimensional, graded and translucent. Layer>Rasterize is greyed out.These are all of the things that result into an incorrect rendition:

I had to take screen captures to get the image to compare.Left: Every time a render, this happens. This example is without a background.Right: In Photoshop, the item floating half over opaque pixels and half transparency.

This is zoomed preview rendering issue in Photoshop. What you see when your artwork is zoomed to fit your screen (not 100%) isn't accurate and your flattened/rasterized image on the left in your example is actually what your artwork looks like.

When not viewing at 100% photoshop uses a different (faster and less processor intensive) method to render the layer effects for preview. Most of the time it works well, but in this case it seems to greatly affect the bevel and emboss layer effect.

That's a problem with no issue. After trying, I hided all the layers except the layer with the layer style, and I make a screenshoot with the snipping tool of Windows.I put a black layer behind, export and import the image and apply a screen fusion mode.That's the only solution I found. Good luck!.

I have a Dell XPS 15 with 64GB ram, 2TB SSD and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650. I run multi-GB files in Photoshop all the time with no issue. I noticed several years ago that when working on rendered plans that use fill layers with layer styles applied - particularly patterns - that Photoshop slows down immensely. This actually caused me to change my workflow so I would be able to minimize this issue by avoiding using patterns in my work.

I'm currently doing work for a client and their graphic standard requires the use of fill layers with pattern overlays. I have created a video to show the difference between working in two files open at the same time, same machine, with same performance settings applied. The file with pattern layer styles - a modest 295MB - is incredibly slow, taking abnormal amounts of time to zoom, pan, move, change blend mode, opacity, apply new settings, etc. The other file - with 1.65GB, zooms in and out easily, pans normally and is able to be edited, altered and changed with no lags.

There is obviously a major bug in using pattern overlays. I created each of the patterns myself and each individual pattern tile is less than 1mb, often between 100 - 500KB. I am unable to rasterize the layers due to the firm's graphic standards which require all the layers to be fully editable for team collaborations. Please advise on an update or bug fix ASAP. And if you watch the video, you'll see exactly what performance settings I have.

Hi @FutureLandscapes It's been a few days since you posted. Is this still happening? Thanks for taking the time to make the video to show us what's going on. It seems everything is running slower than it should. Have you been using this same XPS for the last several years while having the same problem through many releases? What troubleshooting have you tried so far? When did you last reset your Preferences?

Also, I notice you're allowing Photoshop to use 80 percent of Memory Usage, while 70 percent is recommended. You have 2 cache levels, try 4. Did you update the latest NVIDIA Studio driver? If you are running the Gaming driver, that might cause conflicts. If you are still experiencing a slow-down after trying these changes, please go to Help > System Info, copy and paste the text here in a reply, and we'll see if we can spot anything else going on!

Hi all! I was going through a PSE6 book and got to a point where the author talked about layer styles. Well on my effects palette, there aren't layer styles.

He mentioned that you can download them from the internet and they need to be placed in Adobe\Photoshop Elements 6\Presets\Styles so I checked there and there are several in there. But why are they not showing on my effect palette? I even checked the 'all' portion and none of the styles show.

Any ideas? I'm learning so much and would like to go though these 'lessons' in the book.

Anyone else have this problem?

6:25PM, 27 February 2008 PDT(permalink)

I tried that and when I hit the second icon, there is nothing. I have something when I hit the other 3. Not sure why they are missing. I haven't looked for them until now because I didn't even know what they were. But now that I've come across them in my book I want to use them :)

ages ago(permalink)

So when you click the second icon (in the Effects Palette) there's no dropdown box on the right? If there is, try clicking on the down arrow in it. If there's no dropdown box I think you'd better re-install. But you're definitely in the Effects Palette?

ages ago(permalink)

Well I can just about see that you have the Layer Styles icon highlighted which should give you the drop down box to the right of it. The lack of that is very strange.

Let's see if PSEFrank has any ideas before you re-install, though it shouldn't really do any harm to just do it.

Fraaaaaaaaaaank!

ages ago(permalink)

I have PSE6... I followed instructions about adding layer styles from a tutorial that mentioned deleting your cache from older PSE versions.

After deleting my cache I learned that I no longer had any layer styles. This is how I learned that deleting cache in PSE6 is not needed.

To get my layer styles back I simply poped in my PSE6 disk and when it asked me I reloaded the program with the "repair/reinstall" option.