The gradient displays strangely in Photoshop, but there are no issues once it is to saved to a files

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Hi, communityRecently, my Photoshop has been displaying gradient issues with noticeable banding, and these problems are also affecting the 'Color Picker'.What I have done so far:Tested with a 16-bit color image.Reset Photoshop settings to default.Tried installing and reinstalling Photoshop, and even tested with various versions of Photoshop, but the issues still persist. It appears that there is a PC setting causing these issues. I can't recall the changes I made.I attempted to save these images as JPG files, and the gradients appeared as intended.Has any community member encountered this issue before? Can you share some solutions?Basic PC Information:Windows 10 - 22H2Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KRTX 3070

D Fosse · Answer

That's either a seriously damaged monitor profile, or a buggy GPU driver.

Or both, amplifying each other. The monitor profile conversion is done in the GPU nowadays, and they need to work together.

Update your GPU driver first. Go to Nvidia's site and choose the Studio driver, not the Game Ready driver. Go to custom install and check "clean install" to remove traces of the old driver. Uncheck the extra components in the driver package (GeForce Experience, PhysX).

Then replace your monitor profile. The proper way to do this is to use a calibrator, but if you don't have one, use sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for now. It won't be entirely accurate, but better than a broken profile. Relaunch Photoshop when done, it loads the monitor profile at application startup.

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