/t5/photoshop-beta-bugs/p-gradients-don-t-work-well-with-artboards/idc-p/14496735#M14879Mar 18, 2024
Mar 18, 2024
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I just ran into this bug after learning about artboards. Kind of makes me wish I didn't learn about artboards and had separate documents instead. A pain but at least this wasn't an issue. Still experiencing the problem after the suggested fixes of trying both align with layers and not aligning with layers. We're trying to create a series of options for the client to use and duplicating artboards. When duplicated the gradients don't move. Sometimes when I move (without duplicating) an artboard the gradients move and sometimes they don't. They were all created as gradient layers.
@turkar Has there been any movement on this? As others have noted, the gradient issues are truly killing my workflow. I work in artboards with multiple gradients daily and everytime I open the file, they've moved into random positions, they don't export right and are just a headache.
I have created a document with 14 artboards to present design variations to a client. When I duplicate each artboard, the gradient copies over with it but positions itself randomly so I have to re-position them all. Then, when I go to export each image, the gradients mess up again and the exported image doesn't match the file. With so many people experiencing the same thing, why hasn't it been fixed? Surely copying a gradient from one artboard to another and retaining its position should be standard functionality?
/t5/photoshop-beta-bugs/p-gradients-don-t-work-well-with-artboards/idc-p/14667051#M16158Jun 07, 2024
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This has been an issue for MONTHS if not YEARS. I Constantly have to copy my art boards into a new file and paste them, then proceed to export.
Let alone constantly trying to move them around to their original position only for them to not export correctly dispite in program display showing the gradient in the correct position.
I've resorted to just exporting the gradient I require in a new file, and pasting it into the project as an image.
Yes if you have to make changes to the gradient for something else you'll have to rexport it. But I'd advise getting all the ones you may need and putting them to one side of your project.
Adobe please fix this... Why are we all paying extortionate amount when its a basic ass feature GIMP or Canva can do with ease. Blows my mind.
/t5/photoshop-beta-bugs/p-gradients-don-t-work-well-with-artboards/idc-p/14691595#M16261Jun 19, 2024
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I can't believe I've been dealing with this for so long! I went looking for a possible solution again and by chance found this post, from, believe it or not, a year ago.
Nothing has been resolved with this issue, which is a big one... The subscription is very expensive, but in my opinion, they are more focused on new features, AI, etc., rather than solving such a major problem. 🤔
Gradients seem to be broken when using multiple artboards in Photoshop.
If you drag out a Gradient Fill with the Gradient tool, the start and end points of the gradient are not correct when it comes to exporting the artboard as you can see in the attached images
I am on MacOS, Photoshop 26.5.0. I replicated this on Photoshop beta, and encountered the same error.
Still an issue that adobe hasn't fixed. I don't even use the new gradient tool anymore because of this issue. Come on Adobe. Get on the ball. You've become the QuarkXpress of this generation.
/t5/photoshop-beta-bugs/p-gradients-don-t-work-well-with-artboards/idc-p/15314493#M19283May 10, 2025
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Just had a complete load of designs slightly chage each time i duplicated an artboard the grad would start to chage every time until some of the designs at the end had diffent grads on them major pain and typical adobe ignoring this bug SORT IT OUT!!!!! its 2025 and still not sorted
/t5/photoshop-beta-bugs/p-gradients-don-t-work-well-with-artboards/idc-p/15330993#M19375May 20, 2025
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It is now May 20, 2025. 2 years later and still no fix for this issue. Lets go Adobe. I've been rooting for you since the days of QuarkXpress but slowly but surely, you've become QuarkXpress of years past. Quark died because they stopped listening to their users. We designers were stuck with Quark until inDesign came along and people ditched QuarkXpress as fast as they could. Unfortunately, I think we are in the same boat now....just waiting on a replacement to ditch Adobe as soon as we can. Hopefully Canva will do something with the Affinity products.
/t5/photoshop-beta-bugs/p-gradients-don-t-work-well-with-artboards/idc-p/15373367#M19657Jun 16, 2025
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After years of avoiding using Artboards I decided, surely Adobe would have this working now at least, but alas no. How could they get this so wrong. So, I create some artwork on an artboard then create a new artboard, duplicate the layers in the first artboard, move it to the new artboard. Gradient doesn't work. So, remove the gradient layer and create a new one, looks good until I want to export and all the gradients are in the wrong place. Only solution I found was to rasterize the gradient layer and that kept it in place. Pain in the butt though 😞
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