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P: Gradients don't work well with artboards

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
February 14, 2023
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- If you're using a gradient layer with a mask, the gradient doesn't correctly fit to its bounds

- If you're using artboards and have content outside the bounds of the artboard, the gradient will size to that, rather than to the artboard

crewmark

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After years of avoiding using Artboards I decided, surely Adobe would have this working now at least, but alas no. How could they get this so wrong. So, I create some artwork on an artboard then create a new artboard, duplicate the layers in the first artboard, move it to the new artboard. Gradient doesn't work. So, remove the gradient layer and create a new one, looks good until I want to export and all the gradients are in the wrong place. Only solution I found was to rasterize the gradient layer and that kept it in place. Pain in the butt though 😞

c.pfaffenbichler

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@Vu24095991p691 , please describe the actual problem and post screenshots to illustrate.

Which work-arounds have you tried so far?

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Vu24095991p691

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It is now May 20, 2025. 2 years later and still no fix for this issue. Lets go Adobe. I've been rooting for you since the days of QuarkXpress but slowly but surely, you've become QuarkXpress of years past. Quark died because they stopped listening to their users. We designers were stuck with Quark until inDesign came along and people ditched QuarkXpress as fast as they could. Unfortunately, I think we are in the same boat now....just waiting on a replacement to ditch Adobe as soon as we can. Hopefully Canva will do something with the Affinity products.

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thies_8956

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Photoshop 26.6.1 - WIndows 11

Problem

1. Create multiple artboards

2. Add a new layer, add a gradient into it. Do this for each artboard.

3. Click File > Export > Export as > jpg

I have a ps file with multiple artboards. Each artboard has a separate gradient (masked).

I can see the gradients when editing.

Expected result

Exporting the artboards gives each of them a separate gradient.

Whenever I try exporting the artboards, the gradient only works on one of them.

Only 1 gradient seems to be allowed to be active.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) visible?

What do you mean by »Add a new layer, add a gradient into it.«?

Are you using Gradient Layers, Gradient Overlays, …?

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w5EF9

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Just had a complete load of designs slightly chage each time i duplicated an artboard the grad would start to chage every time until some of the designs at the end had diffent grads on them major pain and typical adobe ignoring this bug SORT IT OUT!!!!! its 2025 and still not sorted

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Vu24095991p691

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Still an issue that adobe hasn't fixed. I don't even use the new gradient tool anymore because of this issue. Come on Adobe. Get on the ball. You've become the QuarkXpress of this generation.

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AC-WIL

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Hello,

Gradients seem to be broken when using multiple artboards in Photoshop.

If you drag out a Gradient Fill with the Gradient tool, the start and end points of the gradient are not correct when it comes to exporting the artboard as you can see in the attached images

I am on MacOS, Photoshop 26.5.0. I replicated this on Photoshop beta, and encountered the same error.