Photoshop - Problems with gradient, brush and colours

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May 20, 2020
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Hi, since yesterday I am fighting against problems with gradient and brush tool in Adobe Photoshop. It started to show solid colours instead of smooth coverage. I've checked my brush settings and the problem still occurs. Gradient just doesn't work as it should at all, please see image below. Also when doing dodge and burn on models face, I've suddenly got solid flakes on her shirt, where the layer shouldn't be visible at all (black mask applied on whole image). I tried another Wacom tablet and mouse, problem is still on. Also it shows on other screen, that means it is not a screen calibration problem. It must be in PS. Please help me to get rid of this problem...

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PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi, You provided fery few information, it will be difficult to help you until we know: the version of Photoshop (help>system info)

Could you show the titlebar of the document, and the Status Bar, at the bottom, where it reads "doc: / " click on the arrow and select document profile.

Let us see also your edit>color settings, and tell us if proof color or gamut warning is checked, in the View menu.

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shineonphotoAuthor

Participant

Hi, thanx so much for reply. More info below.

I've realised I was editing images on 8 bit channel, when changed to 32 bit, the image improved straight away. Would you recommend working on 32 bit always, and if so, how can I set PS up to automatically open images and work on 32? Is here anything I have to watch when exporting images in LR?

Adobe Photoshop Version: 21.1.2 20200410.r.136 2020/04/10: efaf3fa4e40 x64
Number of Launches: 18
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Version: 10 or greater 10.0.18362.778

System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:9 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2808 MHz
Built-in memory: 32326 MB
Free memory: 17761 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 29602 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %