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I am drawing a new radial gradient on a blank pixel layer.  When I adjust the gradient size handles by dragging my mouse, the gradient draws correctly.  However when I release the mouse, the resulting gradient changes to ... something different.

Image 1 is a screen capture while still holding the mouse and dragging the size handle.  Notice the gradient is nice and circular.

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Image 2 is a screen capture right after I release the mouse button.  Notice it is very different !

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any ideas ?

Posted

Hi @Andy Mo,

I had something kinda similar happen with patch & inpainting. Weird results.

For me, it was caused by an incompatible graphics driver. Once I turned Hardware Acceleration (OpenCL) off, everything behaved as normal.

> Edit > Preferences > Performance

Posted

Not sure but this seems wrong, dotted line and not at 90 degrees.

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Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted

I can't change the angle of those two lines.  The tool seems very cumbersome, especially since the colour picker only shows 1 of the colours at a time, so you are always clicking on small objects (dangerous because you could deselect it and then lose editing ability)

I'll try for the screen record .. 

Posted

Actually - Old Bruce pointed out something to me.  Why are there two lines when using RADIAL ? (I am NOT using ELLIPTICAL). Flipping between the two did not change.  Sorry i didn't notice that before, but I am new to this tool.

Posted
1 hour ago, Andy Mo said:

Actually - Old Bruce pointed out something to me.  Why are there two lines when using RADIAL ? (I am NOT using ELLIPTICAL). Flipping between the two did not change.  Sorry i didn't notice that before, but I am new to this tool.

Double click on the black dot in the screenshot I posted and the dotted line will collapse back. This is cause by what Lem3 posted. 

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted (edited)

Wow - this was fun.

  • Fresh start of Photo with OpenGL off.
  • Drew Linear gradient - you can see the incorrect snap
  • went to Radial gradient - you can see it looks eliptical/wrong
  • went back to Linear - not sure what that is!  a shear ?

 

 

 

2021-09-03 13-36-30.mkv

Edited by Andy Mo
attached incorrect video
Posted

New pixel layer in new document - works fine

New pixel layer in current document - same issue.

The current document was converted from a PSD IIRC, so maybe that is the source of the issue ?

Posted
13 minutes ago, Lem3 said:

There are demons that lurk within the PSD forest.

So many problems that are reported turn out to be from importing other software's files or exported 'common' formats. 

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted
16 hours ago, Lem3 said:

There are demons that lurk within the PSD forest.

Instead of using a new pixel layer, what happens if you use a new Fill Layer?

That seems to work fine.  Thanks for everyone's contributions.

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Posted

Thanks for the file. This is happening with this layer because it was stretched vertically. Select the layer, switch to the Move Tool and check the dpi on the top left corner of the app's interface - notice the dpi - 72x276. A non-stretched layer has the same dpi for both dimensions (horizontal/vertical) and when the values match we only display the value once (i.e 72). That's why it works with new layers (they weren't stretched/have the same dpi in this case 72 which is this document's dpi).

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