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@NathanC Sorry for the delayed response. I have updated my Affinity Bundle to 2.5.2 and the problem still persists on Windows. Doing the step by step with the Gradient Tool (G) the dithering still appears, but the file you sent doesn't have dithering in any sort of way. Also the zip you sent have a "__MACOSX" folder, i suppose you are using the MAC version so maybe there is a difference in both OS's.

Try this:

I'm a linux user and I run V1 and V2 Affinity products in a VM (my only reason to have a VM). I had the same problems, but after installing with the MSIX setup it worked fine. The default MSI/EXE crashes when opening a new document. This never happened in V1, and both installers works flawlessly.

Photo version: 2.4.2 I have the entire V2 bundle but didn't test on the other two softwares. As stated in this thread below, gradients shows as dithered even tho you didn't enable "noise" in the color selection. It's explained by a user that it's a visual only and you can disable in the settings and doesn't effect the exported file. But in some cases disabling dithering and "noise" still appears and effects the final product. Steps to reproduce this bug: Create a new document (doesn't matter the color profile) Create a new Pixel Layer Select the Gradient Tool Select the entire canvas Check if the 'Noise' slider is at 0 Export File And funny enough it doesn't happen with a Fill layer: Create a Fill Layer Select a gradient color Drag the tool to fill the entire canvas Check if the 'Noise' slider is at 0 Export File Also I was trying to add a 'Gradient Overlay' FX to a Fill Layer and it didn't show anything. Test files in the attachments. gradient_dither.afphoto