Help with a broken gradient tool ..::

TP
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Tristan_Pittard
Oct 3, 2003
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So folks, I’m running Photoshop 7. When applying a gradient of any color to transparency, the transparency no longer works. It is as if I were simply using the bucket.

This is really weird. It started yesterday & I’ve never experienced anything like this before.

I tried uninstalling & reinstalling but I still have the same problem. Any ideas out there? Has anyone ever experienced this before?

Hope to hear back from a few of you on this.

Peace, Tristan
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zippy2000
Oct 3, 2003
Try resetting your preferences.
TP
Tristan_Pittard
Oct 3, 2003
Did that Zippy. What else you got?

Thx, -T
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zippy2000
Oct 3, 2003
gosh, I hate to sound negative, but I hope there isn’t something wrong with your video card.

Resetting the pref file usually fixes those type of problems

Do your layer blending modes work? (ie. multiply, overlay, etc.)
TP
Tristan_Pittard
Oct 3, 2003
Yep.. as far as I can tell everything else works fine.
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zippy2000
Oct 3, 2003
Is the layer locked per chance?

EDIT: Nevermind. I just tried that, it did nothing.
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zippy2000
Oct 3, 2003
workaround: maybe a gradiant overlay in Layer Effects

I know this doesn’t help the problem, but I am at a loss.
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zippy2000
Oct 3, 2003
What mode are you working in?
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Tristan_Pittard
Oct 3, 2003
I’m working in RGB… Yeah, I could also feather a selection, but this still doeasn’t fix it. Thanks for your help Zippy..

I tried talking to Tech Support but they are unavailable till after 3 Pacific.
TP
Tristan_Pittard
Oct 3, 2003
OK.. so the resolution.. My prefences folder became corrupt.

I’m in Win2k, so close Photoshop > go to c:documents & settings > your profile > application data > adobe > photoshop > there is now a folder called 7.0… drag it to the desktop. Restart photoshop. Apparently this should work for many sorts of non-functioning tools.

Peace.
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dave_milbut
Oct 4, 2003
gee, just like zippy asked in post #1. 🙂
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hanford_lemoore
Oct 4, 2003
Dave wrote:

gee, just like zippy asked in post #1.

Not quite … Zippy wrote "Try resetting your preferences." This sounds like going into preferences and reseting to the defaults. Orl loading up the default presets for the gradient tool.

Only if you already know that deleting the preferences folder helps problems like this are you going to think that what Zippy meant was deleting the preferences folder.

"Try deleting your preferences folder" would have been harder to get confused like that.

~Hanford
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dave_milbut
Oct 4, 2003
unless they guy had read the FAQ about deleting prefrences. I don’t think he needed to delete the whole folder either. Just the Photoshop 7 Pref.psp file.
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John_R_Nielsen
Oct 4, 2003
Look in the option bar, and make sure ‘Transparency'(at the right side of the bar)is checked.

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