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dw27317543
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June 4, 2019
Question

BUG:transparent gradient tool not transparent, fills in solid

  • June 4, 2019
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I was having some issues earlier with the linear gradient tool adding a large chunk of solid color before the gradient, instead of being a smooth transition from opacity so I reset my tools and restarted Photoshop. After restarting the problem got even worse and now just fills in a solid chunk with no gradient whatsoever when trying to use transparent tools. !

Instead the default transparent tool looks like this:

even though all its default settings are normal:

updating Photoshop and resetting tools hasn't fixed this error.

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6 replies

J
Josh Godin - SVA NYC
Participant
October 22, 2021

Did you ever solve this issue? It's happening to me as well. I'm currently in the middle of a full class load, so I don't  have time to troubleshoot. I can set the layer to multiple and thwart the issue to some degree sometiems.. but that's a bad work around with very particular applications.

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 5, 2019

Make sure you have Transparency checked in the tool options bar.

without transparency checked

with Transparency checked

    dw27317543
    dw27317543Author
    Participant
    June 5, 2019

    that fixed part of the problem. however I'm still suffering from a major banding issue where there's a giant chunk of space that solids color instead of being a "smooth" transition to complete black

    JJMack
    Community Expert
    JJMackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 5, 2019

    Are you editing in 8bit ot 16bit color mode 8bit usually has visible banding you show 8bit RGB....

    JJMack
    JJMack
    Community Expert
    JJMackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 4, 2019

    What OS version and what version of Photoshop???

    JJMack
    dw27317543
    dw27317543Author
    Participant
    June 4, 2019

    I'm using windows 10 and the latest version of Photoshop since I just updated the program to try and fix the problem

    Norman Sanders
    Norman Sanders
    Legend
    June 4, 2019

    Updating the app does not build a new Preferences file. Choose Preferences > General, click on the Reset Preferences,  then restart Photoshop.

    Sebastian Bleak
    Community Expert
    Sebastian BleakCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 4, 2019

    Can you share a screenshot of how the gradient looks?

    marliton
    Community Expert
    marlitonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 4, 2019

    Hi. ¿Maybe, have you tried resetting the preferences?

    Marlon Ceballos
    dw27317543
    dw27317543Author
    Participant
    June 4, 2019

    i've tried resetting all tools to their default value

    JJMack
    Community Expert
    JJMackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 4, 2019

    It look like you gradient thumbnails are being scaled?  The gradient in the gradient editor look OK and you does not show any gradient in the image window.

    Your's

    JJMack
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