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sheenad20008746
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January 16, 2019
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Strange things happen when I use Colour Balance and Curves

  • January 16, 2019
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I didn't know how reliant I am on colour balance and curves until now. Please help

When I use curves to strengthen or lighten my line work something weird is happening. It is making other parts of my image disappear. Even if it's not on the same layer, suddenly a bit of another layer will be missing a chunk at random.

And sometimes if I select an area of colour to change using Command + B, i.e. colour balance, it will turn that whole area multi coloured and patterned as soon as I find the colour I want and hit enter or even if I manually hit 'OK'. It's as if I applied a filter,  which I haven't.

Please, does anyone know what the problem is?

It's super frustrating and I can't find the right wording to explain and find an answer to it.

I think same think might be happening when I do Command + U.

Grrr.

Thanks!

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    Correct answer davescm

    Hi

    You don't say what version of Photoshop you are using or on what operating system (I gather it is a Mac from your use of the Cmd button). It would be helpful to do so.

    The symptoms you describe sound GPU related so I would look in Preferences at the GPU settings and try changing the drawing mode to Basic then restart Photoshop.

    As an aside it it often better to use adjustment layers and masks rather than the menu versions of Curves and Color Balance as adjustment layers allow you to readjust the controls and the masks later.

    Dave

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    davescmCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    January 16, 2019

    Hi

    You don't say what version of Photoshop you are using or on what operating system (I gather it is a Mac from your use of the Cmd button). It would be helpful to do so.

    The symptoms you describe sound GPU related so I would look in Preferences at the GPU settings and try changing the drawing mode to Basic then restart Photoshop.

    As an aside it it often better to use adjustment layers and masks rather than the menu versions of Curves and Color Balance as adjustment layers allow you to readjust the controls and the masks later.

    Dave

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    January 16, 2019

    Thank you, sorry, it's my first time posting in a forum, I can usually find the answer by searching.

    I'm working off the latest PS with Mac OS Mojave 10.14.1

    Thanks re: tip, you know how it is when you get used to working a certain way but will try.

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