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Kristien420
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April 4, 2024
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Soft Brush, and Gradient not working properly

  • April 4, 2024
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So Photoshop has been working fine for me for over 2 years but this week all that changed. Now when i use a soft brush or gradient I get extreme banding and pixelated fade to complete black. I havnt purchased a new monitor and didnt change anything, including my set up. I do a lot of graphic work so im kinda at a stand still until i resolve this issue.




What Ive tried:
- Changing to 8bit/16bit/32bit in Photoshop
- In NVIDIA control panel, setting Adobe Photoshop to High-Preformance Nvidia processor
- Dissabled and re enabled graphic processor in Photoshops preferences section
- Set graphic processor to 30bit in photoshop preferences
- Updated Graphic Drivers
- Checked GPU Compatability
- Reset all tools
- Deleted the Adobe Photoshop Settings file (Ctrl+Shift+Alt)
- Deleted and reinstalled photoshop
- Restarted computer
- Saved image but it still appears like displayed in photoshop
- Made sure my blending options where set to normal
- Disabled the grid in Prefs


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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 29, 2024

As long as you're working in 16 bit depth, any banding you see is in your display system.

 

The display path is 8 bit, unless you have a 10-bit capable (expensive) monitor. Many office/gaming panels are 6 bit+dithering.

 

The most likely reason here is a bad monitor profile. If you're not using a calibrator to make your profiles, many monitor manufacturers distribute profiles through Windows Update. These manufacturer profiles are surprisingly often defective in various ways. The worst offenders seem to be Dell, Samsung, Acer, Asus and LG.

 

For testing, substitute your current monitor profile with a known good standard profile - sRGB IEC61966-2.1, Adobe RGB or Image P3 - depending on which monitor model and panel type (you don't say whch).

 

If that fixes the banding, buy a calibrator. Which you should do in any case.

 

Banding is cumulative. Other causes for banding are calibration tables in the graphics card, bugs in the GPU driver, or a faulty display panel. Sometimes they can pile on top of each other, and result in very irregular and ugly banding.

    Sameer K
    Community Manager
    Sameer KCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    April 29, 2024

    Hey, @Kristien364617069w7c. Sorry for the trouble. You've done a lot of troubleshooting. I'll help you figure this out. 

    Before anything else, update Photoshop to the latest version (v25.7) via the Creative Cloud desktop app & check if the issue exists. 

     

    Try these steps: 

     

    1 - Go to Photoshop > Edit > Settings (CTRL + K) > Performance > Advanced Settings > Disable 'GPU Compositing' & restart Photoshop. 

     

    2 - Go to Photoshop > Edit > Settings (CTRL + K) > Technology Previews & enable Older GPU mode (pre-2016).

     

    Check if it helps & let us know how it goes. Thanks! 

    Sameer K

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