Comments on: Demo: Lighting Effects in CS6

By: Zed

Zed — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:50:05 +0000

Can anyone tell me if there will be a pixel bender toolkit for CS6?
I really enjoy using the pixel bender filter plugin was hoping that would get an update too.. and even some new editions.

I am not entirely sure yet but the oil paint filter behaves slightly different to the new CS6 filter.
Having said that i could never apply the effect to files of a certain size the new oil paint filter has no problems.

What would be a great idea is we could see some more filters like this.. some variations on the bump map/brush tip shapes, currently its van gogh swirly, maybe some impressionistic dabs etc

By: Jupter

Jupter — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:48:23 +0000

in all the years i never used that feature.. it looks fake and i never realy wanted to use that.

try to do shafts of light.. you can paint that manual much easyer then with these light effects.

By: Dave Brown

Dave Brown — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:38:30 +0000

Donald, are you sure the exact effect could have been achieved with a layer style? My impression was that the raised effect was going to be lit according to the specific light sources in the lighting effects. Hard to tell whether that’s actually happening in that particular CS6 demo video. In CS5 (haven’t tried 5.5), the bevel/emboss style offers only a single light.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:30:22 +0000

Is there anything new to Lighting Effects on the *creative* side?

Lighting Effects has the new UI, but is there any new functionality? From this video i don’t see anything new.

On a side note, it seems that you need Win 7 *and* a Photoshop-compatible graphics card to even see this filter on your screen. If one of those is missing, the filter doesn’t load at all. (The Wide Angle Filter runs on Win XP, if the graphics cards is compatible.)

By: Jeffrey Tranberry

Jeffrey Tranberry — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:28:10 +0000

Specifically DNG converter 6.7: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/cameraraw6-7.html

More details on benefits of DNG here:

Why doesn’t my version of Photoshop or Lightroom support my camera?: http://adobe.ly/ACRandDNG

By: Debbi

Debbi — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:56:33 +0000

John will Lightroom 3 be supported with the new Canon 5DMark III? I have to update the computer to use LR4 which I dont want to do at this time.
thx
Debbi

[Sorry, I don't think so. You can use the free DNG Converter to make your images compatible with LR3, earlier versions of PS, etc. --J.]

By: Marc Cardwell

Marc Cardwell — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:11:55 +0000

nice! i was JUST showing some one how to use LE yesterday, and after seeing the tiny preview window, i made the layer a smart layer, so we could get a better preview.

By: Donald Allen

Donald Allen — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:11:33 +0000

Awesome, was wondering what you guys were going to do with that tool. Although, in this tutorial, that was probably a bad demonstration for what you could do with textures. That text he created could have easily had a layer style applied and look the same.