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Below is an Image of An eye I drew, I've been having a problem when it comes to my drawings being pixelized, but for some reason at certain zooms it's not if I fit to screen the image it has pixeilization (Image 2 is a fit to screen image of the drawing) Yet if I zoom in once its perfectly smooth but only at that zoom. again If I zoom out once from the fit to screen its perfectly smooth again (Image 3) I can't figure out what I am doing wrong, so many Youtubers I watch use Photoshop for drawing but I can't seem to understand how their art is so perfectly smooth and mine isn't,
My canvas Size is 5000 Pixels by 5000 Pixels and Resolution is at 300 sometimes 400
Paint Tool Sai isn't video hardware OpenGL accelerated like Photoshop and Krita - that is why I suggested Krita, just to see if there is an issue with your OpenGL settings.
Have you tried changing the performance setting to "Advanced" in Photoshop? Preferences-->Performance-->Advanced Settings-->Drawing Mode "Advanced"? I noticed yours may be set to "Basic".
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Hello, what magnifications are used in the various images?
Also, can you post help>System Info (or Photoshop>System Info on a Mac), so that we can see if you are running the latest display driver?
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The zoom tool in photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x32
Operating System: Windows NT
Version: 6.2
System architecture: AMD CPU Family:15, Model:2, Stepping:0 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Physical processor count: 3
Logical processor count: 6
Processor speed: 3500 MHz
Built-in memory: 8186 MB
Free memory: 5010 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 3255 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 59 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Basic
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2
Display: 1
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A couple of ideas about gritty looking lines on your display:
Why your lines look wobbly/unrefined:
To solve your unrefined looking strokes, you have several options:
Up to you! If you prefer Photoshop for drawing and working in, then I urge you to invest some money in Lazy Nezumi.
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I know it isn't my stabilization I already own Lazy Nezumi, and I have a Cintiq so My lines are already pretty stable I feel it has to do with Photoshop it's self I also have a high quality video card as my computer is a gaming computer
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Does this happen in other drawing applications as well?
In order to figure out whether your issue is caused by Photoshop or not, I would suggest downloading at least one other drawing app, and draw a bit in that (for example, Krita, which has a portable version available for download, so no need to install - and it uses OpenGL like Photoshop, so good for video hardware usage comparison).
Then report back here.
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I did try out Paint Tool Sai and it was smooth but I want to stick to Photoshop since I'm more familiar with it
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Paint Tool Sai isn't video hardware OpenGL accelerated like Photoshop and Krita - that is why I suggested Krita, just to see if there is an issue with your OpenGL settings.
Have you tried changing the performance setting to "Advanced" in Photoshop? Preferences-->Performance-->Advanced Settings-->Drawing Mode "Advanced"? I noticed yours may be set to "Basic".
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I'll try changing the setting first and if not I'll try kiria next and update you
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Don't forget to restart Photoshop when you do.
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It worked once I put it into advance now its all smooth
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Good to know that worked for you!
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We need to see the brush preset to understand what might be going on. Unless it is a hard round brush with no scatter or random size dynamics, then how are we going to understand the resulting brush strokes?
You could maybe have a look at cache levels in Preferences > Performance, but I don't think the sort of pixelated effect having cache levels set to 1, is what is happening here.
The other thing is, to make sure you are using the brush and not the pencil, or that the Image Mode is not set to bitmap
[EDIT] Just read your post again, and I see you are using a Cintiq. We sometimes see issues with Wacam drivers for some Cintiq models, but I would have thought that Lazy Nezumi would iron those out. LNP usually = nice brush strokes