Painting with soft brush gives blotchy effect

Hi

That looks like color banding. Do you see the same effect in 16 bit mode?

Dave

I've edited your screen shot so we can see what is going on

The thing is, there are brush presets designed to give precisely that sort of effect, so we can't possibly say if there is a problem without seeing the brush preset you are using.  If it was a plain vanilla round brush and fully soft, then we would not expect to see this.

Show us some information about the preset you are using, and we'll take it from there.  A screen shot like this for instance.  Just copy to the clipboard, and paste directly to this thread.

A soft brush will look blotchy where the stroke overlap each other because the edges of the soft brush are semi-transparent. If you want a smooth fill you can simply select an area, choose the color you want, and fill it with a solid color. (Edit > Fill).