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black-cat16 In reply to JoeyJazz [2017-07-30 01:53:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for advice, appreciated. 
After what I read in your journal (the one where you say you're sick of people asking for tutorials) I'm kind of afraid to ask. No, I don't want any tutorial, I understand how much time you had to spend on developing your art. I just want to ask you, as you're a digital pro, how the hell do you create works without artifacts? I mean, every time I work on layers, and want to brighten something up, or change layer's mode, there appear ugly lines, shapes, like in this: Sunrise over Atonia  Especially where layers are stacked up. I tried working on much higher resolutions, but it's the same. Am I dumb and doing something wrong? I don't know if there's some kind of secret behind this or not, but if you can, tell me, please. It's driving me nuts and ruins everything I create. I am not a great artist, but I'd rather avoid having that crap spoiling my works. 

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JoeyJazz In reply to black-cat16 [2017-07-30 09:59:23 +0000 UTC]

Sometimes it depends on the displaying device - some monitors don't have the colour range to properly display these gradients - on such a monitor you can see these lines and on others they are not that apparent. But in this case I can see it as well and this means that you need to work in higher RGB colour range (instead of 8bit, work in 16bit) - you can adjust it in the image ->mode or when creating a new document. Higher resolution also helps (I work at 6000px wide minimum). If this won't help, try adjusting the colour tone of each overlapping shade - the number of lines (gradients) is the same as the number of shades available between them, so the closer the colours are, the less steps it takes to create the gradient lines and therefore these lines are more visible - again, higher colour range helps a lot. When saving, try to save the best JPG quality to avoid reducing the number of gradients (JPGs are 8bit - that's not a problem since PS is quite clever with downgrading the image quality).

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