Gradient Layer Not Working (Photoshop 2020)

[ChrisG66]

Hello,

I hope all is well. I'm having issues with my gradient layer. I attached a graphic to help explain.

1. I created a orange gradient fill. So far looks good, but it needs to be reversed.

2. I check reverse and the gradient fills the entire space?

3. I click the gradient fill layer off. The gradient is still showing and it's only the bottom half, which is wrong. I wanted the gradient reversed.

4. I click the layer visibility on both layers and it finally shows the correct placement of the gradation.

I have no idea what is issue is? I tried the gradient layers on other photoshop files and they all have this issue. I feel it might be a memory issue with my mac? for trouble shooting I restarted my and uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop. That didn't work. Here are my mac spec's:

• macOS Catalina version 10.15.5

• iMac 27-inch purchased in late 2013

• Storage 2.74 TB available of 3.12 TB. 24 GB of RAM

• The Photoshop file shown is a RGB, .tif, 300dpi and 97MB

Thank you for your time. I greatly appreciate it.

[Semaphoric · Accepted solution]

Try this: In the Preferences look in Perfomance/Options, and make sure Lecacy Compositing is not checked.

[lambiloon]

Hi you can use angel change to make it reverse.....regards

[JJMack · Accepted solution]

There are issues in 21.1.  I use windows in my PS Preferences Performance section I see the Photoshop is detecting my GPU and I do not have Legacy compositing checked.  PS is not detecting some users GPU and Legacy Compositing Adobe broke in 21.2 it should not be checked. I have no problems doing what you tried.  The image and gradient were displayed correctly.

[ChrisG66]

Thank you so much for the info. It totally worked. Thanks again for your time.

-Chris

[ChrisG66]

Thank you so much! This totally worked. Do you happen to know if the Composting becomes checked when an photoshop update is applied? Thanks again. Have a great day.