Photoshop :: CC Transparency With Gradients - Not Working?
Jul 17, 2013
I found an issue with how Photoshop CC is dealing with gradients and other soft edge transitions on a transparent background with Adobe RGB.made a new document, 2"x2" at 300 ppi and Adobe RGB, added a new layer, used a black to transparent gradient across the document, and made sure the background layer was turned off.
In CS6 I get a nice smooth transition, but in CC there is an abrupt and ugly transition. If I turn a white background layer on gradient looks nearly identical other than CC showing slightly worse banding. Changing the color mode to CMYK produces a smooth gradient on both. Soft brushes produce the same effect. I noticed it when using a soft brush on a mask.
All settings are the same and I have checked the results on two co-worker computers (all 3 are Mac Pros) with the same outcome.
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Jan 26, 2012
We have an issue happening on many of the documents that we have that include a transparency or gradient. We did not have these issues in Draw12. (but did have printing issues)
1st issue: Opening these gradients will randomly flip them. Like so:
The bottom image is correct. Now when we print them from Corel Draw X5 to either of our printers (Bizhub C250, or Biizhub C360ps) we get the following (this is created from the same master file, same settings):
Notice the lens effect color replacement is gone, and the bottom gradient is barely visible, the top one not working at all.
Same document, saved to 12 and printed the same way:
Both sent with identical printers settings, same print driver, and as close as possible settings in the X5 and Draw 12 dialog print boxes.
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Aug 28, 2012
Just as it states, how do I add 2, 3, even four gradients to one object. Each gradient will have some level of transparency to it.
I need it to work similiar to: masking a layer in photoshop, and then using gradients to "chip away" pieces of the layer. I suppose I could just use opacity mask in AI, but I didnt think of that until now. Anywho now I'm curious, can you do this with multiple gradients in AI?
I tried doing the basic "add fill" option then setting my gradients, but it doesnt preserve the transparency correctly.
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Jun 4, 2013
9.0 CS2, but it is not so important, because the questions are fundamental.
Gradient Overlay
1. Look at the gradient settings scale. Why gradient isn't stopped at the second opacity stop and go on till the edge of the settings scale? After all, following the logic it’s the opacity stop and the gradient filling have to be stopped at it. That is to say If the logic of gradient algorithm is next. Filling begins from the left edge of the settings scale and stops at the first opacity stop(this filling is initiated by first markers). Then it continues since first markers and stops at the second opacity stop(this filling is initiated by second markers). But in practice filling continues since second markers also, though there is no third markers which initiate it.
2. Why second markers are necessary(they can’t be deleted)? I can suggest if second markers would be deleted and the first would be moved to position of the second, we would got the same gradient preview. Of course if the filling begins from the left edge and is initiated by the markers as I wrote above.
3. User color – you can set fixed color, which you can choose for the future in a dialog window. The window can be called via click to the pointer near the color icon.
When I click the pointer I see only one window where are three text items – foreground, background, user color. All is clear about foreground and background, they are set in two squares in the tools palette. When I choose “user color” there is no any window is appeared which have to contains at least current user color icon, color picker window, and buttons that allow to tune and apply user color: “set as user color sample” for picked color, “use user color sample as user color”. So how I can tune and choose user color?
Gradient:
4. I use gradient tool from tools palette. I spent it since canvas top edge till guide line. What is the gist of spending it for a specific distance? Why the color of first color stop fills the space till the guide line changing and stops at some light blue. And then monotonically fills with it all distance from guide line till canvas bottom and have no any opacity changes at bottom. Although it have to have some opacity changes because them present in the end of gradient settings scale.
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Sep 28, 2013
I click the gradients panel and then the dropdown of gradients on the left side.
All I see is: White Black, Gold Dust, and Blue Sky.
I know AI has a ton more gradients premade than that so why aren't they in the list? How do I add more to that dropdown?
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Sep 16, 2013
I have a few of layers that have transparency, and I want to save them out as Transparent PNGs. For whatever reason when I saved it as a transparent PNG it is exporting it bigger than it should. It doesn't trim them to the non transparent pixels, instead it renders them out at full size. I used both Save As and Save for Web commands, and neither are trimming the files. When I tried File>Scripts>Export Layers To Files…, 5 out of 6 work perfectly when exported as PNG, but only once. I used layers mask on the layers and I check this last layer multiple times even flooding it with black and then marqueed a random area in white, and it still exports it at canvas size and WONT crop the images to just the visible pixels. Basically it is NOT ollowing the Alpha.
I am in Photohosp CS6, and I am experiencing this issue on both MAC OS X and Windows.
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Dec 1, 2012
Why is the transparency not working on Paint.NET? At paint.NET is becomes good, but in another thing like a website is doesn't..
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Jun 10, 2012
For the past several months I have been struggling with a problem with Illustrator CS4:
1. I have an RGB document 167px wide by 169px high.
2. I have an icon in the document with a rectangle background of 167px wide by 168px high, aligned to the bottom of the artboard.
3. Using both the "Save For Web"" and "Export" options to save the file as a PNG, Illustrator "FILLS" the 1px transparent portion at the top of the image with the rectangle color.
Therefore, I have a PNG that is 167px wide by 169px high with a rectangle background that is also 167px wide by 169px high.
What I want is a PNG that is 167px wide by 169px high with a rectangle background that is 167px wide by 168px high with a 1px space at the top.
The output dimensions in the "Save For Web" dialog are correct and it even shows the 1px transparent space at the top in the preview area.
YES, I have "transparency" checked in the "Save For Web Options". I know HOW to save with transparency and have done so successfully countless times before.
It seriously just... stopped working. I fear I may have changed a setting that would cause this, but I cannot find anything that even relates to the transparency for a PNG other than the simple check box in the "Save For Web" dialog. I only saw one other forum where a user said Illustrator was "cutting off" the transparency, but that question remains unanswered as well.
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Mar 7, 2012
I'm using autocad lt 2012 in office. my hatch transparency effect is not working. no matter what the transparency is 25, 60. 100. the transparency effect doesn't show up. what should i do ?
hatch probl.dwg
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Dec 17, 2012
A graphic exported in Draw & PP in X4 as a .png works fine.
The same graphic copied & pasted into Draw or PP in X6 does not.Repeatable 100%...The eyedriopper selection of the transp[arent color seems to pick up the right color, but the output presents like a .jpg. Viewed in IE9, Firefox & Chrome with same results.
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Nov 16, 2010
I Have several PC's with 2011..On some machines the layer transparency is not working anymore on screen.90% transparency red is normally light pink but on some machines with the same drawing and the same settings it is 100% full red.A few day's ago there was no problem on those pc's
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Feb 15, 2013
I have a document in which I have an image in its own layer set to 50% transparency but when I look at the paperspace the transparency isn't transferring. I do have "Plot transparency" checked under plot options.
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Apr 9, 2012
I am running the 32 bit trial of X6 and the transparent vignette bitmap effect no longer works. I have converted the bitmap to CMYK transparent and back to not transparent several times in CorelDraw X6 and it still does not work. I have event tried making the bitmap an RGB transparent background and it still does not work.
Then when I click "Edit Bitmap..." it DOES open as a bitmap with a transparent background but the vignette function in Photo-Paint X6 does not work with the transparency either. It forces a background color. There is no longer an easy way to fade the edges of a photo.
Why do you always manage to break stuff that was working Corel?
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Sep 10, 2006
I have two pictures.
I would like the two pictures to blend in the middle from left to right.
The picture on the left will be sharpe on the left side but fade/transparent by the time it reaches the middle.
The picture on the right will be sharpe on the right side but fade/transparent in the middle.
I would think I need a gradient transparency (you always have to use a color)
I see pictures like this all the time, but can not seem to find the correct feature or combinations of features.
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Feb 10, 2004
How do you make a 3 colored gradient? Like Orange, Red and Blue?
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Feb 28, 2007
How do I create my own gradients? I know how to manipulate existing gradients and I DLed a few free gradients as well but i would really like to make my own. Anyone know how to do that?
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Oct 16, 2007
I am trying to create a gradient glow effect like the attached, my attempt is on the right hand side but it has rings and just looks crap... Was this not done in Photoshop? I thought this was the best program to do this type of thing in... I just want to create nice gradients!
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Jul 25, 2013
I recently wrote myself an action that includes a gradient layer (two colors in radial so one color is in the center and fades to another on the outer edges)
The gradient's position is exactly as I want it when I return the action on horizontal images, but doesn't work on vertical, as the gradient stays horizontal when the action is run, and so the edges are more or less lost.
This might be a daft question, but is there anything I can write into the action so it knows when it's running on a vertical picture, and when it's running on a horizontal one, so the gradient layer will have the corresponding position? Or is this (as i have a feeling it might be) a case of inserting a stop, and message telling the user to manually adjust the angle of the gradient before continuing?
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Jan 4, 2009
I have been trying the achieve a smooth colour gradient in one of my PS drawings using the gradient tool. No matter what I do I alway get banding. The worst scenario is when I try to use radial gradient.
I'm using large (80x50ins@200dpi) 8bit psd files on a colornavigator calibrated Eizo CG301w. (Vistax64)
Greyscale gradients are really smooth but the colour gradients are not....
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Mar 29, 2007
there's a sharp transition after the smooth one (transition end and fill color doesn't match)... What is configured wrong? in the gradient settings, there's only one color, and gradient midpoints are also in the middle...
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Jun 26, 2003
i used one of the preset gradiant colors and cant get it to use the pallete for gradients.
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Mar 22, 2006
i'm working on a 16 bit psd photo file. i'm using an adjustment layer with a layer mask. when i draw a gradient or use the eraser tool on the layer mask i've been noticing a banding pattern.
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Jan 11, 2006
I've got a client that needs the PMS colors of his logo. The problem I have is that his logo has a gradient and since I didn't originally make it, I don't have the original source files.
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Dec 10, 2007
I recently upgraded from CS to CS3 and I can't for the life of me figure out how you set the gradients so they add on top of each other rather than overwriting.
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May 6, 2009
I'm an artist by profession and having problems trying to blend colours consistantly on canvas. At the moment it is trial and error. Is there software out there that if I select two colours , the programme will create a colour gradient and by selecting a certain point on the gradient by using a dropper, the programme is able to calculate in what proportions (%) the two original colours were mixed?
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Nov 17, 2012
I frequently find myself recreating gradients created in illustrator using Photoshop. however, even when using the exact settings for color, opacity, and location, they never come out the same. is there some rule of thumb or some logic as to how those two applications create gradients and how to better approximate them?
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May 22, 2012
I try to load gradients I saved in cs5 and it now says I've exceeded the number of gradients. it would never save them so I had to keep loading.
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May 30, 2012
i`m trying everything to get the smoothest softest blends possible in photoshop, and I think its possible because Ive seen a lot of digital graphics where it is really nicely done, but mine is a disaster.the banding and artifacts in it are disheartening. whether with brush or gradient, even on small areas like 7 to 12 inches. I'm not talking about poster size just average A4 pages being painted.
I've used the brush tool on the softest setting, and a wacom bamboo tablet, with pen pressure determines opacity seeming to produce the best results, low opacity to try build it up, opaque etc, and very close tones, as close as possible, and the gradients don't fair much better,
is this the way it is or is there another technique to get smooth blends with the brush or gradients? the colour picker seems to have smooth silky powdery blends, I thought it would be possible to paint like this with the airbrush in PS but it doesn't produce this kind of softness.. of course the colour picker is code generated not with a brush,,
-here the brush is used on 3 types of settings, the last being with pen pressure determines opacity producing better results, but not what I expected.
-here I used a large soft brush which was larger than the oval, and a few swipes across but I can still see artifacts or shapes in there,
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Jun 26, 2012
getting rid of some of the gradients in the gradient palette. I'm using Photoshop CS3. Sometimes the graients I create are added to the palette, sometimes they are not, (regardless of whether of not I save them.) The palette is full of gradients at this stage, (some of which are default gradients I would never use.) There doesn't seem to be any logical way to get rid of some of the gradients that have been stored in the gradient palette.
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Aug 10, 2013
I'm demo-ing Photoshop CC, and I came across an unexpected behavior when opening a CS6 PSD.
I have a shape layer that is composed of closed curves which use the path operation "Intersect Shape Areas." In CS6, I added a layer style with a tight gradient that is vertically positioned to show a certain part of the gradient, and the gradient seems to be confined to only the visible intersection of the paths.
In CC, however, the gradient seems to be applied to the entire region of the paths, and not just the intersection - as if there were no path operation performed. Here's an image to show what I mean:
The only way I could reproduce the desired effect in CC was to merge the shape components. But, I'd rather be able to keep the shapes editable at a boolean level.
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Jun 23, 2013
Using CS6, I created a sky gradient on a new layer, then imported some photos to other layers for a composite. Then I noticed horizontal banding of varying widths in the sky area of the gradient. When I use the Move Tool to move the gradient layer around, the bands move along in a fixed position, so it's not my monitor. When I Option-click on the gradient layer eyeball icon to make just that layer visible, there is no banding on the screen, just a smooth gradient as it should be.
I have never noticed this happening before. What causes it and what can I do about it?
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