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I’ve reviewed the mask within your TIF file. At the bottom of the image where it should be pure black (0,0,0) it is actually extremely dark grey (4,4,4). So while your file setup is correct your mask doesn't contain a pure black.
A quick and nasty fix would be to click once on the mask to give it focus. Press Command/Control + M to bring up the Curves dialog box. Then drag the black point slightly to the right.
I still suspect that there is something wrong when you are drawing the gradient o
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Hi!
I believe Michael was correct. I tried to replicate your problem, but I came up with no ghosting at the end of the gradient. You may have had a very dark gray selected instead of black and that is why you are fighting this issue. Also, did you check to make sure that your gradient had no alterations--no color stops added along the gradient itself?
Here was my result:
I don't think it was an issue with the program, but an issue of what color you originally had selected to make the gradient
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Ok, to answer my own question...
I did an "Append Default Gradients" (See attachment). This added the default gradients again below my existing gradients. Now the black in the B/W preset gradient is a proper black again. I then deleted the original set of default gradients to tidy things up.
Thanks for everyone's input! 🙂 Way to go round the houses!
I wonder how the preset got corrupted...?
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