BUG:transparent gradient tool not transparent, fills in solid

[dw27317543]

I was having some issues earlier with the linear gradient tool adding a large chunk of solid color before the gradient, instead of being a smooth transition from opacity so I reset my tools and restarted Photoshop. After restarting the problem got even worse and now just fills in a solid chunk with no gradient whatsoever when trying to use transparent tools. !

Instead the default transparent tool looks like this:

even though all its default settings are normal:

updating Photoshop and resetting tools hasn't fixed this error.

[JJMack]

It look like you gradient thumbnails are being scaled?  The gradient in the gradient editor look OK and you does not show any gradient in the image window.

Your's

[marliton]

Hi. ¿Maybe, have you tried resetting the preferences?

[dw27317543]

i've tried resetting all tools to their default value

[Sebastian Bleak]

Can you share a screenshot of how the gradient looks?

[JJMack]

What OS version and what version of Photoshop???

[dw27317543]

I'm using windows 10 and the latest version of Photoshop since I just updated the program to try and fix the problem

[Norman Sanders]

Updating the app does not build a new Preferences file. Choose Preferences > General, click on the Reset Preferences,  then restart Photoshop.

[JJMack]

Is that the preview windows version 10 1903 or what I'm using

[Jeff Arola]

Make sure you have Transparency checked in the tool options bar.

without transparency checked

with Transparency checked

[dw27317543]

that fixed part of the problem. however I'm still suffering from a major banding issue where there's a giant chunk of space that solids color instead of being a "smooth" transition to complete black

[JJMack]

Are you editing in 8bit ot 16bit color mode 8bit usually has visible banding you show 8bit RGB....

[Josh Godin - SVA NYC]

Did you ever solve this issue? It's happening to me as well. I'm currently in the middle of a full class load, so I don't  have time to troubleshoot. I can set the layer to multiple and thwart the issue to some degree sometiems.. but that's a bad work around with very particular applications.