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Dragon T · 05:01 AM

Is there a way to stop the 'Global light' setting in Photoshop's Layer Styles from resetting its direction every time I make a new document?

sushiism · May 25, 2004, 05:07 AM

I don't use layer styles really but couldnt you do this in an action?

Dragon T · May 25, 2004, 05:49 AM

yes... but I was thinking that there might be a preset.
If there isn't a preset... I realise now that I could make a template...
but that would only be useful at times.

by the way... you really should have a play with layer styles.
there is a world of 'Wow!' in there.
=)

eyevaan · May 25, 2004, 09:47 AM

copy > paste the layer style...

love the layer styles, takes some creativity not to make them look preset but they are too useful.

Adam Betts · May 25, 2004, 12:16 PM

Nope, there's no shortcuts or setting to make the global setting stick to same setting every time you create a new document. It's something Adobe should work on.

For now, you'll still need to manually change it.

Originally posted by eyevaan:
copy > paste the layer style...

Unfortunately, that doesn't store global lighting setting most of the time. It's a known bug and hopefully Adobe will fix this in next update.

eyevaan · May 25, 2004, 01:21 PM

I don't think I noticed that quirk about the copy > paste thang.

Hopefully Adobe fixes it.

bytheby, I am loving the previews of your work DT. very nice view indeed.

JoE950 · May 25, 2004, 07:42 PM

photoshop sucks. why do i still love it soo much? we really should be able to have a proffered default that we can change ourselves.. not everyone likes the standard off to the side windows style drop shadow.. interfaces should always have it at 90 degrees. always.

rpeterclark · May 25, 2004, 11:01 PM

Hey, I got a tip.

Close any open documents then go to Layer > Layer Style > Global Light and set it how you like. It should remember that value as the default from then on. I know for sure this works in Windows but have never tried it on a Mac.

Dragon T · May 26, 2004, 12:45 AM

Originally posted by rpeterclark:
Hey, I got a tip. Close any open documents then go to Layer > Layer Style > Global Light and set it how you like. It should remember that value as the default from then on. I know for sure this works in Windows but have never tried it on a Mac.

Hey! that might just work! =)
thanks

Dragon T · May 26, 2004, 01:33 AM

It isn't a complete fix....
but it does seem to fix the problem in some situations

JoE950 · May 26, 2004, 02:00 AM

yeah, thats how you do it, just right click on the layer style icon thing in the layer pallet (after youve copied over some choice effects) and global light is in the menu. but thats still a big hassle to have to do when theming

or just make a huge document like i do and put all your elements in it. cake.

Dragon T · May 26, 2004, 03:05 AM

One huge doc is ok... but not if you use something like a gradient in the styles.
on second thought... if they were each on seperate layers it would work.
=)

rpeterclark · May 26, 2004, 09:06 AM

Originally posted by Dragon T:
It isn't a complete fix....
but it does seem to fix the problem in some situations

How so? When I set the default like that, any new document I create has the new global light setting. Of course this won't carry over to any documents you've previously saved in which case JoE950's way with the big document is probably the most efficient way of changing them all at once.

As far as I know, there is no way to preserve the global light setting associated with a layer style when copying and pasting it to a different document if that's the problem you are having. It will always use the default global light setting you specified with the way I mentioned before.

Adam Betts · May 26, 2004, 12:13 PM

Originally posted by JoE950:
interfaces should always have it at 90 degrees. always.

Ditto

Dragon T · 06:49 PM

Originally posted by rpeterclark:
How so? When I set the default like that, any new document I create has the new global light setting. Of course this won't carry over to any documents you've previously saved in which case JoE950's way with the big document is probably the most efficient way of changing them all at once.

As far as I know, there is no way to preserve the global light setting associated with a layer style when copying and pasting it to a different document if that's the problem you are having. It will always use the default global light setting you specified with the way I mentioned before.

Correct. if I make a new doc now, the light source is where I set it.
(my preference is up to the left) (shadow down to the right)
however, if I send to Photoshop, from ThemePark, it creates a new file, but doesn't use that setting. for some reason.

rpeterclark · May 26, 2004, 06:16 PM

Originally posted by Dragon T:
Correct. if I make a new doc now, the light source is where I set it.
(my preference is up to the left) (shadow down to the right)
however, if I send to Photoshop, from ThemePark, it creates a new file, but doesn't use the that setting. for some reason.

Ah yeah, I do know what you mean. I get the same oddness when I open files from certain programs which seem to somehow specify a global light value (even if there are not any styles associated?). :-/