Lighting effects no longer available?

I have been doing a lot of photoshopping lately involving the lighting effects filter. Unfortunately after producing about 7 images, the lighting effects option is no longer available. When i click on filters>rendering>where it normally gives the option for lighting effects, instead it is a grey text saying lighting effects but i can't click on it. I've tried re-installing but that didn't do anything. I have photoshop CS and Windows Vista so if anyone has any ideas of how i can fix this, that would really help as an entire project depends on it.

hi,
I am just a novice,,,
I would check my settings, did you change mode? in certain modes like lab or cymk lighting effects will be greyed out..... try imgage>mode>rgb that mode should give you back your lighting effects

rmaucere said:

I have been doing a lot of photoshopping lately involving the lighting effects filter. Unfortunately after producing about 7 images, the lighting effects option is no longer available. When i click on filters>rendering>where it normally gives the option for lighting effects, instead it is a grey text saying lighting effects but i can't click on it. I've tried re-installing but that didn't do anything. I have photoshop CS and Windows Vista so if anyone has any ideas of how i can fix this, that would really help as an entire project depends on it.

Thanks for the help. That did solve the problem of my not being able to use lighting effects, but now I find myself in the same boat as a lot of people where the lighting styles drop down box is empty, and all of the presets styles are missing....Thanks for the help on the other issue though. I am going to post my new problem in another thread.

hi ,
great that issue is taking care of...l.. your welcome.... the other one.....
on your other issue... not sure about that one.. I think the first thing i would look at is looking in the cs folder>plugin>filters>lighting styles and make sure there listed there.....

did a little reserach and i found this link, has some possible answers...
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/archive/t-13045.html

rmaucere said:

Thanks for the help. That did solve the problem of my not being able to use lighting effects, but now I find myself in the same boat as a lot of people where the lighting styles drop down box is empty, and all of the presets styles are missing....Thanks for the help on the other issue though. I am going to post my new problem in another thread.

Thanks for the idea, but ive already done it haha. all of the files are there in the folder.

hi,
well looks like that idea hit dirt... did you try some of the ideas at that linke there was 2 or 3 others...?

rmaucere said:

Thanks for the idea, but ive already done it haha. all of the files are there in the folder.