Lighting Styles PS7

Can anybody HELP for days now I have been trying to cure the following problem:

When going to Filters/Render/Lighting styles.

I see NO preset styles in the drop down box just an empty white space.

I am running Windows XP Professional

If you upgraded to XP then that would be your problem. That happened to me when I upgraded to Win2k and just upgraded and did not do a clean install.

I'd suggest uninstalling PS, reboot, re-install and that is what did the trick for me...

Thanks for the idea, but I have uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times this included cleaning out the registry I guess there must be some other files that are retained, even after uninstalling ?

But the error still exists, maybe it because I have the upgrade of PS7 ?

Paul

Hmmm... My only other suggestion would be to check out the adobe.com forums and see if anyone else has this prob. :(

Done that been there.

I am sure it will cure itself one day when Adobe realise it has a bug. On the Adobe Forums many users are reporting this problem, and everyone says reinstall?

It would be nice to know what actualy causes the error so we can investigate more throughly.

Paul

I feel your pain. I had the exact same thing when I upgraded to Win2k without doing a clean install. Re-installing did fix the prob though...

Have you tried old faithfull and delete your prefs file???

Yes, I have deleted the *.psp files but this did not make any difference.

I have been looking at other forums on this issue, and it appears that a lot of users who are using XP experience this problem.

It appears that if your partions (Hard Drive) are NTFS then this causes the fault to occur but when the partion is FAT32 a reinstall works.

I would not mind, but with the cost of Adobe products you would think they would have tested on all systems.

Going back to Ulead Photoimpact until I can resolve this.

Thanks for the help
Paul

Sorry to hear you couldn't get it working :( I'm running XP pro (ran home for a bit) and have never had the problem you are having with XP. Like I said when I upgraded to Win2k without a clean install that happend a reinstall did the trick...

Do you even show the lighting style presets in your proper Adobe folder. Are they there? And maybe just not showing up. If not maybe copy them where they belong and see if they show up. Also there was an issue in 6.0 with Norton protected recycle bin. So if by chance you do have that running try disabling that and rebooting...

Sorry... :(

I had this problem too. It wasn't until I read this post that I realized that MY problem (couldn't save a new preset) was the result of the same situation that's causing the problem discussed here. I didn't have any of the presets showing either.

I have since fixed this and both functions, saving new presets and using "stock" ones, are completely functional. It has absolutely nothing to do with your file structure or operating system.

Here's what I did:

1) Uninstall Photoshop
2) Go to the Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop 7 and completely delete the Photoshop 7 directy (or Adobe if you don't have any other Adobe products, I had Acrobat, so I just deleted Photoshop 7).
3) Reinstall Photoshop 7


Here's what happened. When you uninstall Photoshop, it keeps all the folders and settings in the "Photoshop 7" folder. These are just settings such as filters, plugins, etc. So when you don't MANUALLY delete this directory, Photoshop keeps its contents on the new install. Since the contents didn't jive with the original installation of Photoshop, they won't work again with the new one! Deleting them is the only answer. This allows PS to install the defaults. The only plugin I had to reinstall as a result of this was Eye Candy 4000 (but that's the only other 3rd party plug in I use!). The new install will create all the default files as they originally should be when the old directory no longer exists.

So, a lot of people had the same idea, just one important step was missing! For others with this problem, let me know if this helps. It certainly has helped me and I'm back up and running.

By the way, NTFS with Windows 2000....not that it matters! lol

I have uninstalled and reinstalled 4 times removed all Photoshop 7 directorys including all preference files and hand cleaned the registry for ALL incidents showing PS7 and searched hard drive for "photoshop" and deleted all files, and I still see no "Lighting Styles" after a reinstall.

I am running Windows XP Pro also Office XP and my partions are NTFS, I still think it is a bug with PS7 as this should not happen and nobody should have to keep reinstalling a program.

Paul