Broken CC2015 Photoshop gradient tool. In addition, not toward backward compatibility is a very bad idea.

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• gradients in 2015 does not allow me to choose the background to the foreground colors

  In cc2015, I can not choose the colors for the gradient tool by simply selecting colors in the foreground / background color picker.  This used to be a defect.  Does anyone have a solution?

  Have you tried to reset gradients?

  

• The gradient tool is really useless?

  I'm doing something really simple and it is apparently impossible with the gradient tool. It was a no-brainer in FreeHand.

  In the attached picture, 3 steps are displayed (fltr).

  (1) all of the components used

  (2) the 2 arrow-shapes are being mixed with 20 steps and aligned with the path.

  (3) the spline is replaced by the curve.

  Why are the beginning and the end "borrowed" or in other words, why not all the distances are too balanced?

  

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• Gradient tool works only with layer masks...

  Hello, I'll start by saying that I'm not an expert in photoshop by any means... but I usually managed to get my projects done with a bit of fusion.

  At the moment I'm trying to fade out the last inches of a photograph, so it blends more into circles on which it is placed.

  If I use the gradient tool, the value "in the foreground to Transparent" I get good effect, but instead of fading to transparent, happening in white... what doesn't work when I move the layer over a colored background.

  I have read and watched many tutorials on this, and they say all create a layer mask, then use the gradient... but for some reason whenever I the mask of the selected layer the gradient tool will not work...

  Can anyone give advice? I've been playing with this for hours...

  And ensuring that the blending mode for the gradient tool is set to Normal.

• Gradient tool leaves irregular stripes

  They are not bad, but for reproduction, they're pretty bad.

  I use PS CC 2014

  on a Mac equipped 10.10.5

  Here is the setting of the gradient tool (I tried to change settings of dithering and transparency, but that does not help)

  

  I use the parameter with the quick mask.

  In order to leave a color gradient, by masking the upper layer and then remove part of it to expose a lighter color.

  You can't really see in the image below, but there are streaks. And they are more obvious when I leave the quick mask and remove the selection (below)

  

  

  Is there a way to avoid this?

  Is there another way to make a gradient without these bars?  The image size is 300

  As long as you are working in 16 bit depth, a banding see you is in your display path (video card, display profile, calibration, control panel)- not in the file itself.

  The only exception to this is that the jpeg compression can introduce color banding.

  It is also worth mentioning that selections are 8-bit, so if you have a mask from a selection that can cause strips. But this isn't the case here - one directly created mask follows the number of bits of the file.