Every once in a while I run into a problem and some Google searches don’t help me.

When that does happen, I like to post the eventual answer I find so I hopefully can help one of you poor souls out there.

I was working on a logo design for a client and wanted to use some various layer effects.

After playing with different ones for a while I found the combination that made me happy.

My objects were on various layers and I need to merge them to one for the effects to look right.

During this process I must have inadvertently clicked something. When I tried to re-apply my effects they didn’t show up. I checked my blending options, clicked on the little eye, tried saving and opening again.
All looked normal, but no effects?

WTF!

I Googled and read. Googled and read. Googled and read.

After finding nothing I created a new file and drug my layers there – the effects showed up. I could have just been on my way, but I wanted to know why. During this step I noticed the little eye was darker in the new file. So I guess my eye was grayed out in my ‘broken’ file. I Googled some more on a grayed out effects eye to no avail.

Now I was certain the problem was with my file and not the layers themselves I started clicking around the PS menus to see what I could see.

Finally I found it – Layer -> Layer Style -> Show All Effects

After clicking it all my styles where there. The text changes to “Hide All Effects” when clicked and the layers effects all vanish – as expected.

Who knows what the hell shortcut I did to make them hidden, but I’m glad to have them back and know where to find the answer if it happens again.

Good luck to you