Recently i have been having trouble with my color settings and i am not sure if they are correct at all on my laptop.

On this contest image i could not see the dust that seems to now be in the doorway under the beams of wood? Should i be able to see that like i do now?

http://photoshopcontest.com/images/large/wecikkyttz9z6kmcc7wfayvncgdjedzoff72.jpg

My photohop question is more reladted to gradients. I seem to have also inherited a banding issue on all my gradients. I used to see them as smooth and non-banding.

Should the banding have been there even on the photohop defualt gradients i dont get if it is that i can see more detial or not?

I know such a lame question

Thanks, Rob

Example of the gradients created with ps i see banding.

A silly question but when used do you switch them to multiply?

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Nope i made a screencast of my gradient use. For your viewing plesure

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruq_QoObozQ[/youtube]

check the color depth on your graphics card settings

Says it is set at 32 bit (True Color) 1366 x 768 resolution

I can't see the banding but I see little squares..is that what you mean. Go to VIEW/SHOW/PIXEL GRID

I fixed this by a fresh install of windows. #i no longer see the banding in screenshot 2 but little squares in the first on a compression issue i think.

Thanks for taking the timed guys

wow, that's radical, maybe the issue was tied to photoshop using the video card's OpenGl to render graphics

That's what i'am talking about .