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Brushes in CS4 producing banding instead of smooth feather
Hi everyone,
Every time I use the brush tool in Photoshop CS4, the feather effect on the brush produces this horrible banding instead of a smooth feathering effect. Also when I click once with the brush tool and then shift click on another spot to create a straight line between the two points, the line produced is kind of bumpy - not the straight line CS3 used to produced.
I have no idea why this is happening and wondered if someone else has experience this and has a solution?
I'm using Mac OS 10.5.5.
Really appreciate any help.
Every time I use the brush tool in Photoshop CS4, the feather effect on the brush produces this horrible banding instead of a smooth feathering effect. Also when I click once with the brush tool and then shift click on another spot to create a straight line between the two points, the line produced is kind of bumpy - not the straight line CS3 used to produced.
I have no idea why this is happening and wondered if someone else has experience this and has a solution?
I'm using Mac OS 10.5.5.
Really appreciate any help.
Go to image > mode and tell us whether you're in RGB, CMYK or indexed colour.
If it's CMYK or indexed colour, you're probably adivsed to convert to RGB (image > mode > RGB) first.
Have you tried using the same brush on a brand new document to see whether it's the file you're working on or a setting in PS?
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If it's CMYK or indexed colour, you're probably adivsed to convert to RGB (image > mode > RGB) first.
Have you tried using the same brush on a brand new document to see whether it's the file you're working on or a setting in PS?
T
ASKER
Thanks for the replies,
I'm working on a 300dpi document in rgb mode. I also checked the brush dynamics - there's nothing unusual going on there as I didn't change anything and everything is at their default settings.
I've attached an example of a jaggy brush stroke. Can you take a look?
jaggy-brush-stroke.jpg
I'm working on a 300dpi document in rgb mode. I also checked the brush dynamics - there's nothing unusual going on there as I didn't change anything and everything is at their default settings.
I've attached an example of a jaggy brush stroke. Can you take a look?
jaggy-brush-stroke.jpg
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Also attached is an example of the banding I'm getting when using a feathered brush. I just created a gradient, and applied a layer mask. I then just used a 100% feathered brush to brush away some of the gradient. The attached file shows the banding on the feathered brush.
Do you have any ideas what might be going on?
feathered-brush-with-banding.jpg
Do you have any ideas what might be going on?
feathered-brush-with-banding.jpg
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Thanks for the reply,
For some reason the brush has now lost its jaggy appearance - not sure what happened.
For some reason the brush has now lost its jaggy appearance - not sure what happened.
Have you checked your brush dynamics?
The quality of a 72 dpi document will be different to say a 300 plus dpi one
I'll reverse that I've just checked and I don't get any banding in a 72 dpi document
Could you put up an example?
and/or screenshot?
And details of the brush used?
The only time I got something similar was in bitmap mode