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Brightness Flickering in Photoshop CC 2018

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February 5, 2018
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Hi, everyone.

I had this issue before, but it was a little different and was happening in Firefox and PS. Somehow I fixed it, but I'm not sure how. Now it's just happening in PS.

I start PS and everything is fine. Then I open a file and drag it to the top to enlarge it, but I still have all the tools and jazz showing. I'm not sure what to call that action. Anyway, then my sceen starts flashing. It's like the brightness is dimming in and out at a rapid rate. And it effects the image and the whole interface. Before when I had this problem it was doing it slowly. I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix the issue. I'm running the most current version of PS CC 2018. The graphic card it uses, Nvidia GTX 1050i is up to date. I don't have any plugins.

I searched Google for an answer but the only flickering I could find was this: Fix Flashing Black Screen in Photoshop CS6 or CC - YouTube and that's not my problem. I really hope someone can help me. This issue is very annoying and I can't work like this.

Thank you!

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martbiemans

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I have this issue as well on a new Dell Precision 5550 laptop, everything above is not working.

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Freyr

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Any news on fixing that? Just bought dell XPS 17 , and VERY disappointed with that issue

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dougl48943691

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nope, still have the problem. It's been very problematic.

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havau

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Thank you a lot

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dougl48943691

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I have the same issue it looks like. I am using the new Photoshop fully updated that I pay for monthly as of April 18th, 2020. When I mess with Adjustment Layers and also stretch an image in scaling or by zooming it, the image flickers into a default gray tone making it very difficult to gauge the brightness or darkness or hue that I am attempting to alter. It happens also at times to get stuck in the flickered grey so I cannot even see the image at all. I may note this also happens in the Navigator at times. I don't know who to contact about this or what to do. Can someone please help me with some info? Processor 3.6 Ghz 8-core intel Core i9 Graphics card Radeon Pro Vega 48 8 GB on macOS Catalina (which I hate btw).

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Tom Novella

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I was able to narrow the issue down to being Nvidia's G-Sync feature in my case.

I have an LG monitor with FreeSync that, according to NVIDIA's vendor QA list, is compatible with my GTX 1080's G-Sync feature. I activated G-Sync with video games in mind but began noticing the flickering issue in Photoshop. Under the settings for G-Sync in the NVIDIA Control Panel, setting it to only apply to full screen apps (ie. video games that take over the entire screen) but not windowed fixed this for me.

Given that these features dictate the way a monitors refresh rate is handled, it may be worth looking further into that incase the above does not apply or resolve the issue for you.

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Schot__

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Found a similar solution as tomicat:

8th Gen Desktop with 1080 GTX. Playing around with my LG Freesync/ Nvidia G-sync caused the flickering. I turned on the Freesync in my LG settings and also enabled G-SYNC from the Nvidia control panel. When I started work in Photoshop I noticed the flickering. Googled the problem and landed here. After reading this topic I checked the Nvidia control panel settings and this is what I did:

Open Nvidia Control Panel from the notification icon on the bottom right of windows(10) taskbar.
Click "Manage 3D Settings"
Click the tab that says "Program Settings"
Click "select a program to customize" drop down menu
Click Adobe Photoshop (photoshop.exe)
Look for "Monitor Technology" (from the list "2. Specify the settings for this program:")
Click on "G-SYNC Compatible" (beside (to the right of) "Monitor Technology")
Click "Fixed Refresh"
Click Apply

Hope that helps!

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Anonymous

This sounds like an interesting option, but I don't have "Monitor Technology" in the list as you do. What should I do? I'm on a laptop

Loekvugs

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For anyone who still has this issue.

I recently reinstalled windows 10 and I figured out that the Gefore experience application from Nvidia caused the problem.

Try to uninstall it. I hope this helps for some of you.

D Fosse

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Thank you. That's what we're constantly trying to tell people. Photoshop can't do this, it has to be the video driver, a laptop "enhancement", or some other third-party utility.

lucaspatecki

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it is somehow related with photoshop, i have fresh w10 with uhd 630 card and nvidia 1050ti and same story only photoshop is flickering... other aps working like charm

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Gemma12334

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Is there any news? I feel so hopeless with this problem...

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Rune Werner Molnes

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Just updated to latest version of Photoshop CC (Ver. 20.0.2) screen still flickering when zooming in/out from the picture or moving it around. Screen interface is also red at first open, if I resize PS interface, and then maximize it again the red color is gone. (The "red interface" is also an issue with PS CC 2018).

I have a AMD professional graphics card running on the pro driver. (Radeon Vega Frontier Edition), Ryzen 8 core cpu, 64 GB of fast RAM and generally new, high performance computer system. (8K main screen running 32 bit color).

Works fine with the previous version of Photoshop CC (2018)

Only solution so far has been to not use Photoshopp CC (2019) at all, the flickering renders it totally useless.

And yes, I have tried everything to make it work. (Every possible tweak and setting).

Photoshop: Please fix!

jbm007

Community Expert

8K ??

I would blame AMD first.

Adobe probably has not tested PS in a 8K environment and it will be a long time before it happens.

PS 2019 has additional GPU features that have been added that PS 2018 did not have.

So that is why PS 2018 appears to work. Hopefully something can be done, but I would not hold my breath to long.

Good luck.

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lukeb94441399

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I don't know why people keep saying it's a laptop issue. This started on both my desktops in the last couple years.

One is a 780gtx machine and the other a 1080ti. I found a fix last year but I forgot about and am searching for it again.

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lukeb94441399

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Just exported some pics and they're hella dark. This really sucks. Btw this happens in both Lightroom and Photoshop. Disabled using gpu for both didn't help

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lukeb94441399

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An update to my 1080ti rig. I went into device manager and updated the drivers there rather than using the nvidia. Flickering seems to be gone.

Evga Gtx1080ti ftw3

i7 8700k

16gb corsair vengeance pro rgb ddr4 3200

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romualdl76808317

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Hello everyone,

After a long while I was finally been able to figure this out. What I did was update NVidia graphics driver to the latest version from the NVidia website (417.35) and then I manually updated intel integrated graphics by going to Device Manager -> Right Click on Intel UHD graphics 630 -> Select Update driver -> Browse My computer... -> Let me pick... -> Untick Show compatible hardware -> Select the earliest version of the driver (23.20.16.4973 [2/28/2018]) -> Install it and the flickering is gone. Hopefully that helps for some of you guys.

Regards.