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hiphopclosetNYC
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February 10, 2025
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Pure blacks not displaying properly on photoshop 25.12.1

  • February 10, 2025
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Hi all,

I recently encoutered an odd problem where pure blacks have some kind of noise/grain in photoshop. The problem does not appear in illustrator, or on web generated pure black, so I do not think it has to do with my screen.

It appears in different files with different color modes as well, however if I switch devices and open the same file it does not appear.

I am running macOS Monterey 12.7.5 on a 2013 Mac Pro.

 

Attached is a sample of pure black, next to a gradient so you can see where on the spectrum the effect occurs.

Also attached is the colorsettings. The issue was not fixed by changing to srgb, everything else is default.

 

2 replies

D Fosse
Community Expert
D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 11, 2025

The black rectangle is 0-0-0 black.

 

Just to make sure, I've been studying it on my Eizo Coloredge, cropped, against a pure black bakground.

 

What is the problem, exactly? Does it not display as black on your screen?

 

Edit - was this originally a CMYK file by any chance? In that case there's an explanation for it.

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hiphopclosetNYCAuthor
Participant
February 13, 2025

It displays as mostly pure black with some gray noise within it. The file was created with standard adobe settings in srgb. I just did a rectangular fill and a gradient.

D Fosse
Community Expert
D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 14, 2025

Can you make a screenshot?

Sameer K
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Sameer KCommunity Manager
Community Manager
February 11, 2025

Hey, @hiphopclosetNYC. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. I'll move this to discussions for now. Please share the system info from Photoshop Help > System info > Copy and paste into a text document > upload and attach here.

 

Does this happen when you use any image? Here is a recent conversation that may help you figure this out: https://adobe.ly/4gxrszw

 

Let me know if it helps. Thanks!
Sameer K

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    hiphopclosetNYCAuthor
    Participant
    February 13, 2025

    Hi! @Sameer K 

    It happens on any file in photoshop with pure black in it. It does not happen on illustrator or web.

    I attached my system info as well

     

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