Photoshop brush banding/posterization

[Damien Symonds]

I can't remember if I've already asked - have you tried these?  http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/09/black-boxes-and-other-weird-behaviour.html

[Damien Symonds]

57 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Did you view it in your browser, AND download it and open it in Photoshop?

Further to this, I'd be interested to know what you see if you download and open my PSD file.

[BySqueesh]

1 hour ago, Damien Symonds said:

Did you view it in your browser, AND download it and open it in Photoshop?

Oh god duh! No I didn't, and opening it in photoshop shows the same problem, it's a much smoother gradient than anything I have been able to create so far, but it's still apparent when opening that image of yours in photoshop

[BySqueesh]

39 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Further to this, I'd be interested to know what you see if you download and open my PSD file.

Just downloaded and opened the PSD file, the issue is definitely there for me.

About to follow the steps you linked (blackboxes/weird behaviour one)

 

 

[BySqueesh]

1 hour ago, Damien Symonds said:

I can't remember if I've already asked - have you tried these?  http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/09/black-boxes-and-other-weird-behaviour.html

Sadly didn't work

[Damien Symonds]

9 hours ago, BySqueesh said:

Sadly didn't work

Your cache levels were already on 4?

[Damien Symonds]

On 30/11/2016 at 8:08 AM, Damien Symonds said:

Can you try something for me quickly?  Go to Edit>Assign Profile, and assign your monitor profile to the image.  Does that make it look worse, better, or no change?

 

On 30/11/2016 at 8:25 AM, BySqueesh said:

Really? That's interesting! How do I know what my monitor profile is? (Sorry I'm not the most techy person) in the Assign Profile I get 3 options:

Don't Color Manage This Document

Working RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1

Profile: With a very large drop down list

Did you ever do this?  From the very large drop-down list, choose your monitor profile.  (Whatever name you gave it when you just calibrated with the Spyder.)

[Damien Symonds]

Also, which web browser do you use?

[BySqueesh]

Strange, I had replied to these comments but it obviously never went through (I wondered why the thread was so quiet hah!)

On 04/12/2016 at 8:18 PM, Damien Symonds said:

 

Did you ever do this?  From the very large drop-down list, choose your monitor profile.  (Whatever name you gave it when you just calibrated with the Spyder.)

I did and it didn't change anything.

 

On 05/12/2016 at 10:53 PM, Damien Symonds said:

Also, which web browser do you use?

I use Google Chrome

 

 

I'm still struggling to find a fix. I've just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and the problem is still very apparent.

Literally out of ideas to fix this.

[Damien Symonds]

10 minutes ago, BySqueesh said:

I did and it didn't change anything.

What?  Absolutely no change at all?????  That's ... well, it's impossible.

10 minutes ago, BySqueesh said:

I use Google Chrome

Well crap, that's not helping.  If you don't have Firefox installed, install it now.  Then make sure it's set up like this.

[BySqueesh]

1 hour ago, Damien Symonds said:

What?  Absolutely no change at all?????  That's ... well, it's impossible.

Well crap, that's not helping.  If you don't have Firefox installed, install it now.  Then make sure it's set up like this.

Nope, no change at all setting photoshop to the same monitor profile (not with the banding/posterization issue, didn't check any colour differences out)

Got firefox and set up as your guide suggests.

[Damien Symonds]

9 hours ago, BySqueesh said:

 (not with the banding/posterization issue, didn't check any colour differences out)

Can you?  Check for colour differences?  This is really important.