Its supposed to look better than this isnt it?

[Chrisblah]

Ive done a little painting in photoshop with no major problems but recently the marks made with the brush tool seem so ugly, and i don't think that its just my eyes. Heres what it looks like:
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/7898/59655848mx7.jpg

Thats a full quality JPEG
300 P/I
RGB color 8 bit
default brushes

Why are the colors and gradients so damn ugly and why do the brushes look so tacky? I have tried changing all sorts of setting and even tried reinstalling my graphics card drivers but i cant seem to figure out whats wrong.

Please help, i have tried google and searching this site but i cant seem to solve the problem.

[Elwell]

Honestly, things look fine to me. Do you happen to have your display set at less than millions of colors?

[PuppyKitten]

I'm sorry, they look fine to me. What specifically is so "ugly"? Just the colors of the gradients/ low opacity bits?

[aea]

It looks like 'smoothing' is off. You could always reinstall Photoshop to be sure.

[bumskee]

I agree with others, they look fine.. they actually look like that..
*shrug*

[monsi]

try playing with the brush settings. turn the spacing down to like 1% or so, see if that's what the problem is .

I'm thinking your asking about something we can't see though. so yeah can't help.

[Chrisblah]

Ah! i think ive solved it. I had my graphics card colour quality set to 16 bit rather than 32 bit and it seems fine now.

Anyway, thanks for the help guys.

[Elwell]

Ah! i think ive solved it. I had my graphics card colour quality set to 16 bit rather than 32 bit and it seems fine now.

Thought so.