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nicochi
nicochi
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February 11, 2020
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New dirt artefacts appearing in all my documents

  • February 11, 2020
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Hello

 

Today I started noticing that some weird white artifacts/pixels started appearing across my PSD documents. They also seems to adapt drop shadows from the artwork. But they do not disappear when I hide individual layers or effects, nor does the dirty drop shadow clutter disappear when I turn off all layer styles. Meaning it's super random. I worked in Photoshop all my life and have never come across something like this. 

 

When I hide ALL layers it disappears with them but as I said above they still presist while hiding individual layers so it seems like a software rendering bug.

 

It's also happening to all my documents. Not only this one. I've tried mixing with the performance settings for my graphic card but to no use. Also tried flattening the smart objects, removing masks etc. and nothing helps. Restarted the computer also and still there.

 

Would be very thankful for any help.

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PECourtejoie
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PECourtejoieCommunity Expert
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February 11, 2020

Hello, did you try to disable legacy compositing in preferences>performance?

    nicochi
    nicochiAuthor
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    February 11, 2020

    Yes I tried that and it didn't help sadly. 

    Weird thing is that the shadow disappears when I hide one of my folders with smart objects. But the white pixels persist. 

     

    I'm starting to think that the smart objects somehow are causing this. But they look totally fine when I check them out. They are just regular png's dragged into the document as usual/done for years. And somehow now it's causing this pixelation with drop shadow.

     

    Thank you for your suggestion

     

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    Edit

    I also sent the document to my co-worker to see if the problem persisted on his computer and it did

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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    February 12, 2020

    The pixels generated are white. I didn't see them because my BG was white (sorry for the poor use of words in my previous post). This is how it looks without layer style. 

     

     

    And this happened to all layers in the document which had Layer Style applied to them as you can see in original post


    So there are image pixels and it’s not just a display issue? 

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