[PS CS4 / CS5] Problem displaying Gradient Layers

[J-C]

Hi everyone,

recently I discovered a problem regarding gradient layers... I don't know if it's just me or a general thing...

I use to (re)-build stuff in Photoshop by using pathmask on color- and gradientlayers. I experienced that the angle of a gradient seems to change if I zoom out. This phenomenon only apperars if the path is quite narrow.
I hope the attached image explains it ...

Well the angle is ok, if I save the image or collapse all Layers - but during working on the image it's quite disturbing if you zoom out to judge the gradient in context.

AND: the wrong angle is also applied if you change the imagesize before flattening it...

Has anyone else experienced this and has found a way to avoid it?

[J-C]

Anybody... ?

too bad =(

[Doug Nelson]

I don't know if this is what you're referring to, but zooming out to less than 100% causes Photoshop to use an image proxy instead of viewing the real image for speed purposes. There are some exceptions to this (50% and 75% come to mind, there are a couple of others). And this has improved in CS5, but hasn't been perfected.

[ratpat13]

I've seen the same thing. The safest assumption is it has to do with how the image renders at different viewing percentages. If it shows properly at %100 then it's the issue of how it renders when zoomed out. Changes to CS5 helped "smooth" that problem (literally) but I guess it's not quite perfect. A similar issue happens with layer effect styles. They don't change with he zoom percentage either.

Your photoshop is fine.

[J-C]

Thanks for the replies,

well - it doesn't seem to depend on an "even" zoom-factor (like 50%, 25%, 12.5% ...)
I will try it with OpenGL enabled ... maybe that does the trick - but i'm not quite sure.

Because (as i wrote) when i resize the image without flattening the layers, the Gradientlayers' angle is wrong ... i don't think, this depends on grahpics-output ???

[J-C]

Okay - so I've tried it with activated OpenGL (PS CS5 @ 64Bits) ... still the same result.
The farther I zoom out // the more I resize the image - the worse it gets ...

This really sucks So working on large files with gradientlayers is not possible